Archetype-A
Collection: Billiani 1911
Category: Seating
Archetype-A is a wooden chair designed by Mario Alessiani that celebrates the company’s origins and know-how. The design is as simple as possible. Nothing more than four legs, a seat and a back. This draws attention to the wood.
Mario Alessiani is an Abruzzese industrial designer, born in 1989 in Teramo. After completing his scientific high school diploma, he moved to Rome and enrolled in the Product Design course at the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED). Since his student days, he has been collaborating as a Junior Designer in Giulio Patrizi’s studio before moving to London, where he began working with Jake Phipps, a designer for Innermost, Thonet, and Riva 1920. Upon returning to Italy, he founded his Industrial Design studio and focused his work on the research of the productive and aesthetic expression of objects through simplicity and function. He is a design lecturer at Sichuan Normal University in Chengdu (China), IED Rome, and the University of Camerino.
Archetype-A
Mario Alessiani
Wood
2024