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.
