Poltronova Canton Bank
Poltronova Canton Bank
Poltronova Canton Bank
Poltronova Canton Bank
Poltronova Canton Bank
Poltronova Canton Bank
Poltronova Canton Bank
Poltronova Canton Bank
Poltronova Canton Bank
Poltronova Canton Bank
Poltronova Canton Bank
Poltronova Canton Bank

Poltronova Canton Bank

Designer: Franco Raggi

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Delivery time 8 - 12 weeks.

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Poltronova Canton Bank

Designed by Franco Raggi for Poltronova in 1988 , it is a beech wood bench with a melamine edge and water-based paint.

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Type: Bank

Materials:
[Canton] beech wood with melamine edge and water-based paint.
[Colored Canton] Wooden structure covered with natural stained ash veneer and water-based paint.

Dimensions:
Length: 170 cm
Width: 45 cm
Height: 75 cm

Weight: 46 kg

Designer: Franco Raggi

Brand: Poltronova

Delivery time 8 - 12 weeks.

100% Original

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More information

The Canton wooden bench, designed by Franco Raggi in 1988, equipped with two spaces on the sides - containers for magazines, books and telephone directories, still in use at the time - ideally designed for the entrance of houses, "was born - writes Franco Raggi - from a graphic exercise: a black line that in its continuous path creates two squares joined by a horizontal line. Dragging this line into the third dimension, I realised that the solid thus obtained could be a bench, not a comfortable seat, but one for temporary use, where ergonomics could be sacrificed in favour of an abstract, almost neoplastic image. In the squares transformed into open compartments, books and objects could be placed."

After including the project in its catalogue - in the usual philological way - the Centro Studi Poltronova, together with the architect Franco Raggi, has brought out a new version of Canton, in two combinations, red and green, blue and orange, each with a positive and a negative version.

About the designer

Franco Raggi

Born in 1945 in Milan, where he graduated in architecture from the Polytechnic in 1969.
Editor of the magazines "Casabella" [1971-76] and "MODO" [1980-83]. In 1973, he organised the first critical exhibition on radical Italian design for the IDZ [Internationale Design Zentrum] in Berlin. As an author and designer, he participated in several exhibitions, including: Assenza Presenza [Bologna 1978], Cinquant'anni di architettura italiana [Milan 1979], La neomerce [Milan-Paris 1985]. In 1983, for the 17th Milan Triennale, he designed and organised the exhibition Le case della Triennale. At the 18th Triennale in 1989, he curated the design section in the exhibition Il futuro delle metropoli. In 2015, he curated and organised the exhibition Una galleria lunga 40 anni at the College of Architects in Milan.

About the brand

"Poltronova is the radical factory. Poltronova is a historic moment, which is still alive and where many of us still feel at home. Where the glorious and long history of Italian design began among frogs and reeds, before reaching the altars of honour..."

Andrea Branzi Archizoom Associati.

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