Together Apart
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Together apart

HAND MADE IN ITALY

Design can create communal bonds across huge distances. Mattiazzi is a welcoming home for international pioneers, forming kinship out of intrinsic similarities. Leon Ransmeier – New York  Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec – Paris Konstantin Grcic – Munich Sam Hecht & Kim Colin – London Jasper Morrison – Berlin Maybe it’s the way you pronounce your vowels, just like your father. Perhaps it’s a certain something in the way you bite your lip when you’re nervous – your grandmother used to do that too. Families create the basis of who we are, where we grow from and how we develop. Today, those closest to...

Leon Ransmeier – New York

Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec – Paris

A Very International Family Portrait We begin by travelling to New York, where we snap Leon Ransmeier on the roof of his studio, relaxing on his Chiaro chair. His eighth for Mattiazzi, he’s now an established mem­ ber of the family. On top of his chair sits his heirloom: the original prototype of the one he designed, cheekily angled upside down. It’s a hand-me-down that reminds us of where design DNA comes from, and where it can grow to: from prototype to final product. Remember your cousins in Paris? The Bouroullec brothers play this role for the camera with aplomb (and of course, they...

Konstantin Grcic – Munich

Sam Hecht & Kim Colin – London

Jasper Morrison - Berlin

MC 1 — HE SAID / SHE SAID Studio Nitzan Cohen 2009 MC 1 He said/She said — MC 2 Branca — MC 3 Osso MC 4 Medici — MC 5 Solo — MC 6 Fionda MC 7 Radice — MC 8 Chiaro — MC 9 Uncino MC 10 Clerici — MC 12 Tronco — MC 13 Facile MC 14 Primo — MC 15 Quindici “It’s all about the basics, about carpentry work, an intuition for wood together with years of experience.” Nitzan Cohen Photography Gerhardt Kellermann, Fabian Frinzel

MC 3 OSSO Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec 2011 Osso, ash, grey coloured / Osso, ash, pink coloured Branca, ash, natural / Branca, ash, green coloured MC 2 — Branca Sam Hecht & Kim Colin 2010 “For Industrial Facility this was undoubtedly an unusual project.” Sam Hecht 38 “Working with Mattiazzi is comparable to work with an organic farm.” Ronan & Erwan Bo

MC 5 — Solo Nitzan Cohen 2012 Solo, ash, blue/black coloured / Solo, ash, natural / Solo, ash, neon blue coloured Medici, ash, grey coloured / Medici, ash, yellow coloured MC 4 — Medici Konstantin Grcic 2012 “Designing for Mattiazzi was a sort of personal time travel which took me all the way back to my professional roots.” Konstantin Grcic 40 “Solo is more of a character, a bit hard but very round, very simple but also intricate, practical and pragmatic…”

MC 7 — Radice Sam Hecht & Kim Colin 2013 Fionda Side Chair, ash, natural, black canvas / Fionda Side Chair, ash, natural, white canvas Radice, ash, yellow coloured, with upholstery / Radice, ash, black coloured MC 6 — Fionda Jasper Morrison 2013 “I am attracted to the language of camping and campaign furniture. It’s something about the lightness of structure and required efficiency.” Jasper Morrison 42 “Radice finds its underlying beauty and simplicity in its structure.

MC 9 — Uncino Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec 2014 “As with many words, Chiaro has several definitions: clear, bright, and straightforward.” “Uncino is almost primitive. It’s a wooden chair collection composed by two or three pieces of perfect numerically sculpted wood, held in place by simple metal rods.” Leon Ransmeier Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec Uncino Version A, ash, natural MC 8 — Chiaro Leon Ransmei

MC 12 — Tronco Sam Hecht & Kim Colin 2016 Clerici, ash, grey coloured / Clerici, ash, red coloured Tronco, ash, green coloured, with upholstery / Tronco, ash, black coloured, with upholstery / Tronco, ash, red coloured, with upholstery MC 10 — Clerici Konstantin Grcic 2015 “Thanks to simple, solid construction that supports the most sophisticated cultivation of form, the benches in the Clerici collection radiate a calm intensity.” Konstantin Grcic 46 “ Tronco has surprisingly natural comfort and works well in multiples, not just alone.”

MC 14 — Primo Konstantin Grcic 2017 Primo, beech, black coloured “The elegant dovetail expresses a sturdy simplicity to complement the sophistication of all Mattiazzi pro­ ucts” d Florian Lambl 48 “The strictly vertical orientation of its legs gives the chair a strong architectural presence.” Konst

Quindici, ash, grey coloured / Quindici, ash, black coloured MC 15 — Quindici Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec 2017 Quindici is a Sandwich / a System / Comfortable? / grey / black Natural / wood / light / Quindici is flex Florian, Cristina, Nevio Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec 50

Mattiazzi Factory Photography Fabian Frinzel

ART DIRECTION & DESIGN Lambl Homburger PHOTOGRAPHY Portraits Christoph Mack Collection Gerhardt Kellermann, Fabian Frinzel Mattiazzi Factory Fabian Frinzel text Josie Thaddeus-Johns HAND MADE IN ITALY MATTIAZZI SRL VIA SOTTORIVE 19/2 33048 S. GIOVANNI AL NATISONE (UD) ITALY