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Archetype-A

Collection: Billiani 1911

Category: Seating

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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.

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Designed by
Mario Alessiani
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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
Product description
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, Billiani’s material of choice, reducing the form to its purest essence. The dynamic nature of the chair derives from the shaped front of the back rest, which is tilted to support the seat, making it more comfortable and ergonomic. The form of the seat also works in this direction, softening the rigour of the design in the name of greater comfort. Archetype-A is available all in wood or with a padded seat, and is stackable.
Archetype-A
Product name

Archetype-A

Designer

Mario Alessiani

Materials

Wood

Year

2024

Official website

https://www.billiani.it/en/Salone del mobile

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