What Martino Gamper did between two thousand and Saturday 04th February 2012

Rita’s Chair, Left and Right
2008
A set of 12 chairs in teak, walnut, ash, upholstery, plywood
65 x 55 x 80 cm
Nilufar Edition

Carpet Future
Made for Designer of the Future award and exhibition:
Design Miami/ Basel
2008
Hand woven, natural wool
300 x 200 cm
Nilufar Edition

Tangram
Made for Designer of the Future award and exhibition:
Design Miami/ Basel
2008
Modular tables made from terrazzo, galvanized steel, oak, walnut, ash legs, marble gravel.
Dimensions variable, 3 different heights:
42/ 57/ 72 cm
Nilufar Edition

Cuttings
2008
Vases made from reclaimed material
Various sizes
Nilufar edition

Total Trattoria Off-Cut Table
2008
Teak from English school laboratory tops, oak from Scottish church benches, poplar from the London Patent Office.
13 pieces, various sizes

The Off-Cut table is made of 13 individual units, butted against each other to create one large horse-shoe configuration. Although the leg system stays the same each table top is a different shape, size and material; a unique variation that is result of the multi-faceted division of the surface. Three types of timber are merged together to create the surface. Off-Cut reflects the fact that a dining event is only ever complete when the different people around the table share the same experience.

Gio Ponti translated by Martino Gamper

“For this occasion, the furnishings designed by Gio Ponti for the Hotel Parco dei Principi of Sorrento will be exhibited together with the unique pieces elaborated by Gamper. The new orientation of the gallery is to commit international and Italian designers to develop limited edition projects conceived exclusively for Nilufar.

In the gallery, Martino Gamper, armed with the tools of his trade, will break, cut, and modify furniture created by Gio Ponti (courtesy of Nilufar). Not an act of destruction in itself, but rather “an action” to: RE-invent, RE-think, RE-possess the object, and REcreate a “new destiny” for it. Nothing could be further from being relegated to a museum exhibition. The object will be offered an alternative way out, and thereby RE-delivered to true life.”

“Deconstruction”, much more than mere standard practice, is a path to knowledge for Martino. Making contact with the structure of the object is both an intimate and physical gesture for him – the emotional dynamics of relating himself to the essence of the object. The object arouses an emotion that causes a personal RE-action in him, which is then elaborated during the performance, as an immediate action on the object, a “creative process in action” that we can define as “Action Design.”

taken from the press release

A Bit Lazy table
2007
140 x 73cm
Unique example

Lazy Table
2007
165 x 73 cm
Unique example

Large Dining Table
2008
320 x 90 x 73 cm
Unique example

Trumeau
2007
80 x 45 x 205 cm
Unique example

Two Legged Console
2007
130 x 45 x 150 cm
Unique Example

Table
2007
176 x 72cm
Unique example

Console
2007
85 x 35 x 51 cm
Unique example

Two Stools and a Low Table
2007
Stool 31 x 31 x 60 cm
Table 45 x 45 x 25 cm
Unique example

Mirror
2007
76 x 67 x 5 cm
Unique example

Desk
2007
120 x 70 x 76 cm
Unique example

Chair
2007
65 x 55 X 94 cm
Unique example

Coffee Table
2007
30 x 30 x 37cm
Unique example

Coffee Table
2007
92 x 90 x 31 cm
Unique example

Floor Lamp
83 x 30 x H max 167 cm
Italy, 2007
Unique example

Mirror
2007
80 x 128 x 68 cm
Unique example

Chair
2007
65 x 70 x 89 cm
Unique example

Console
2007
130 x 47 x 81 cm
Unique example

Mirror
2007
76 x 67 x 5 cm
Unique example

Veneered plywood edged with polished walnut, cherry, cedar and elm.
Lacquered black and white MDF.
Limited series of 12 examples.
Italy 2005, realised in 2007.

Black MDF. Silver, gold and bronze metallic laminate.
Limited series of 12 examples.
64 x 60 x H 185cm
1999, realised in 2007

Wooden frame, leather cover.
Limited series of 15 examples.
69 x 57 x H 93cm
2006, realised in 2007

Layered polar frame, laminated in 3 colours, waxed ebony edge.
Limited series of 9 examples.
320 x 90 x H 74xm
2001, realised in 2007