Nolita
Pedrali - 2015

The past summer.

The Nolita collection was designed for the Pedrali brand half a century after its foundation. The company's origins were linked precisely to the production of metal garden chairs. This provided us with the starting point for the design of a series of seats which, using today's most advanced production technologies, paid tribute to the original know-how of the Company. In fact, the impression is that it is an object suspended in time, current and yet with the taste of memory. His idea is so simple that it seems to have always existed.

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There is no rain on this.

We could say that Nolita is a transparent chair, it can be seen through and gives space and visibility to Nature, to the pre-existing square, it does not invade, it is a line, a design in space.
Our goal was evidently to create a chair for the sunny squares, the arcades, the waterfront. It is a summer chair, which wants to be outdoors, which lets the rain slip away, which is easy to move and stack. It is a metal chair, but light, physical and visual lightness.

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Less than that, I stand up!

The seat consists of twelve equidistant steel rods that follow the section lines of an ideal surface described by the human figure in a seated posture. The distribution of the rods is designed to distribuite the person's weight uniformly, ensuring maximum comfort with minimum material. The support surface obtained from the sum of the rods makes it possible to make the heat exchange almost null.

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WANDERLUST

Patterns and paradoxes.

Although the chair, taken individually, lets the gaze pass through its slender structures so as not to limit the view of the places in which it is placed, we often see it used in its strongest colors, sometimes in a refined contrast with architecture or with the landscape. Here then is revealed its graphic paradox: the chair repeated in space becomes a pattern of parallel and colored lines, a motif that some places of hospitality use as a visual appeal! The set of seats remains transparent, but brings to the first floor of the observer a light sign of color, which does not produce shadows, multiplies its lines!

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