Martino gamper

“True ugliness can be a treat.” " I didn’t make one hundred chairs just for myself or even in an effort to rescue a few hundred unwanted chairs from the streets. The motivation was the methodology: the process of making, of producing and absolutely not striving for the perfect one. This kind of making was very much about restrictions rather than freedom. The restrictions were key: the material, the style or the design of the found chairs and the time available — just a 100 days. Each new…

A creative couple bring their work home and transform a modest apartment into a fun house.

the sitzung chairs by martino gamper are freely reconfigured by the public and the staff to gather, to rest, and to play.

When we stopped to ponder the legless back and seat of a ubiquitous faux Eames polycarbomate chair we found on the street, we suddenly realized the influence designer Martino Gamper had on our thinking, whose clever 100 Chairs in 100 Days inspire completely novel iterations.

100 Chairs in 100 Days by Martino Gamper

A series of design classics by Gio Ponti were destroyed and reassembled into new pieces by designer Martino Gamper in front of a live audience at the Design Miami/Basel collectors' fair in June. The performance (above) was called 'If Only Gio Knew...' Gamper has sent us images of the resulting pieces, all made from original

Figura is an innovative idea for designing an armchair and is an expression of the mix of design, art and craftsmanship that distinguishes Gamper's creative process.

Martino Gamper 100 Chairs in 100 Days

Martino Gamper and Francis Upritchard | NICK BALLON