| | | The New Gaudi Design 2007 We are honored to introduce yet another masterpiece: Vico Magistretti's last commercial chair, the New Gaudi. Over the years we had many conversations with Vico. He was a friend and an inspiration. He worked on some wonderful furniture for us. For years he had wanted to modify the original Gaudi Chair - designed in 1970 and produced for three years - in order to take advantage of new materials and advanced technologies which could make the chair lighter, stronger, and stackable. The New Gaudi is the fulfillment of his dream and a superb example of the way he imparted beauty and dignity to a modern material. Produced with advanced injection moulding, the new design is slim, refined, and comfortable. The New Gaudi is perfect for use indoors and out. As one of the great designers of post-war Italy. Magistretti gave modernism a human face. His legacy includes a dazzling array of architecture, furniture and everyday objects. He sought to create a new kind of design which was simple, functional, rational, elegant - and anonymous. He wanted to produce objects which seemed not to have been designed but to have evolved organically. "Vico was always seeing something different and thinking about new projects", says Paolo Imperatori, who worked closely with him for four years. "The New Gaudi was a rediscovery for him. I remember the joy in his eyes as we were delivering the first model -which, as usual, had to be lifted through the window furniture of our office. A masterpiece of Italian design was coming back to life, in a new form but as if it had always existed." | | The New Gaudi Design: Vico Magistretti, redesign 2007 | | |