Friedman Benda gallery's recent show featuring Italian design practice FormaFantasma presented a minimalist approach, utilizing chartreuse carpeting to enhance their collection of "domestic archetypes." The designers, Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin, created a limited set of furniture pieces inspired by American design legends like Frank Lloyd Wright and George Nakashima. The emphasis on intentionality in their work is highlighted by the choice of meticulous materials, specifically cherry wood, and the focused functionality of each piece, designed for precise use without excess.
"It's monastic," Farresin said during a walk-through earlier this month. The series is made from an extremely limited set of components and there are just a handful of pieces in total. They call the works - an armchair, a range of lamps, a desk, and a table - "domestic archetypes." "Everything is super-intentional," Farresin said.
The pair looked to three sources of American design, Frank Lloyd Wright, George Nakashima, and the Shaker community, for some of that precision and focus.
In "Formation," it's evident that Trimarchi and Farresin have chosen a common building block from their research: planks of cherry wood. These are meticulous.
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