Poltronova
Rumble Sofa
Price € 20,740.00
The designer Gianni Pettena created for Poltronova a sofa that breaks away from convention, capable of expressing order and rigor while simultaneously conveying a strong imaginative drive that makes creativity its defining feature. Rumble stems from the experience of living in a vast space, where no barriers or constraints imposed by walls exist. In this ideal setting, furniture must be conceived on the scale of space itself rather than that of the human body. This piece is defined by a fixed square perimeter, within which numerous rectangular elements can be removed and freely arranged according to taste or circumstance—better still, when left scattered and loosely composed. In this way, Rumble expresses an aspiration toward free expression: a powerful voice seeking to give shape to something new, unexpected, and constantly evolving.
W.248 x D.248 x H.51 cm
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Great protagonist of the adventure of Italian Radical Design, the Tuscan brand Poltronova is a real cult among design enthusiasts. This company is the daughter of the genius of the eclectic entrepreneur Sergio Cammilli and his meeting with Ettore Sottsass, who was the artistic director of the brand for over a decade, placing at the center of the aesthetic revolutions that shocked the world of design in the 60s. The brand is now experiencing a second youth thanks to the impactful and visionary aesthetics of its products, also loved in the fashion world and by the most renowned influencers.Read more
Designed by
Gianni Pettena
Gianni Pettena (1940-), Italian architect and designer, has left a very important contribution to the development of Radical Design in Italy. A fine theoretician, he has assumed particular importance above all for his critical and academic activity that has made him rise to the role of bard and interpreter par excellence of Radical Design. A native of Bolzano, he studied architecture during the 1960s in Florence, then the creative epicentre of great intellectual and social ferments of which Pettena himself would also be a protagonist, so much so that he defined himself with a happy play on words as an “anarchitect” (this is the title of one of his most famous essays, published in 1973): during the course of his career, most of his projects will never take concrete form, remaining by choice at the level of installations or performances, straddling the world of conceptual art that he loved so much. A declared enemy of all modernist rationalism, Pettena is the author of anti-projects that are ephemeral by nature, often infused with a pioneering ecological sensitivity and focused on the relationship between man and nature. His most famous creation in the field of product design, the Rumble modular sofa (1967, produced at the time by Gufram and re-edited today by Poltronova), dates back to his student years, before his graduation in 1968. In the early 1970s he was the protagonist of a long tour in the United States and then returned to Florence to devote himself to teaching. From 1973 to 1975 he was one of the animators of the Global Tools experience, a sort of “Radical Design school” that aimed to promote individual and collective creativity. Pettena then held the position of professor of History of Contemporary Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture in Florence for many years, until 2008, also teaching in the 1980s for some periods at the Domus Academy in Milan and at California State University in the United States. A radical to the core, unlike many of his colleagues from his youth he always refused to move to Milan to work as a designer for large-scale industry.Read more