“Caratteri Mobili” in Italian has two meanings: “moveable type” and “typeface furniture.”
The graphic project by Francesco Dondina, a playful reinterpretation of the alphabet in quasi 3-dimensional lettering that morphs into furniture, has been transposed into installations in an exhibition organized by Les Trois Ourses.
The transformation is the work of A4Adesign who have exported, via drawings and the realization of proto-types, the forms designed by Dondina from printed paper to cardboard. They are forms that become readable furniture, or rather letters that furnish daily scenes: tables, chairs, stools, bookshelves, coat-hooks, sofas built out of cut sheets of honeycomb cardboard.
A game, ironic lettering, a test of feasibility and ambivalence which springs from a project conceptualized and realized in 2008 by Francesco Dondina for the series Un Sedicesimo published by Edizioni Corraini of Mantua. It’s an alphabet in which every letter is also a piece of furniture. Originally conceived for children, it crosses over all barriers of genres and generations.
Organized by Les Trois Ourses on the occasion of Designer’s Day, a 6-day event in Paris dedicated to design, the exhibition will be up from June 9th to 14th in the suggestive environs of Docks en Seine, the ex-General Warehouses along the Seine and an integral part of the major development project called Paris Rive Gauche, destined to become a laboratory of creativity and a space of exchange and discovery.
Who What Where When:
CARATTERI MOBILI / an alphabet in 3 dimensions
Concept and graphic project by Francesco Dondina
Design and realization by A4Adesign
Catalogue: Caratteri Mobili by Francesco Dondina (Un Sedicesimo, Edizioni Corraini)
Docks en Seine, Les Trois Ourses, 34 quai d’Austerlitz, Paris
June 9th to 14th 2010
hours: 10:00 am to 7:00 pm
Sunday June 13th 11:00 am to 6:00 pm
Vernissage Thursday June 10th 6:00 pm to 11:00 pm
For further information or images, please contact:
A4Adesign
via Davanzati 33
20158 Milano
Paola Pescetelli
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T +39 02 45477928
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