One form - twenty finishes

Nacho Carbonell, the 2009 Design Miami/Basel Designer of the Future, has unveiled twenty prototypes from his new series “Diversity”. This is the single largest body of new work ever shown by Carbonell and will debut a broad array of
recently created finishes made from gravel, thorns, resins, broken glass, monofilaments, and others. The “Diversity” series is being shown at the Palazzo Ferre, a space otherwise used exclusively for Gianfranco Ferre’s fashion shows, in conjunction with the Salone di Mobile, and will be on view from April 14 , 2010 throughout the month.

In the new “Diversity” series, Carbonell takes twenty iterations of the same form – a slender-legged chair attached to a narrow, covered desk – and creates distinct finishes for each with the result suggesting a demographically diverse neighborhood. One is coated in “hair filaments” that can be combed and groomed; another in shards of broken
glass from used wine bottles; and, yet another in a granular concrete coating.

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