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Angel Chair

Sergio Mannino Studio

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Sergio Mannino with the chair - Benjamin Langford
Benjamin Langford
Benjamin Langford
Sergio Mannino with the chair - Benjamin Langford

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Dimension
84x68x65cm
Completion
2023
Material
Wood, Foam, Chrome, Fabric
Sergio Mannino Studio
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This chair was designed specifically for the Angel Care Pharmacy in Philadelphia and it is used in the waiting area. It is designed to be comfortable without being a home chair. The fabric is removable and washable.

Often in design, we distinguish between objects designed with a "mosquito" approach and things designed with an "elephant" approach. The "elephant" is a form made of one single piece of material molded into the object's final shape. On the other hand, the "mosquito" is an assemblage of many individual components into one final form. The two approaches are used to describe the design of Verner Panton (elephant) and Charles and Ray Eames (mosquito), and I believe the first to come up with it was Louis Kahn.

I am much more attracted to the Eames approach because I see objects as a mirror of our world, and the world, as I see it, is a constellation of a myriad of individual pieces (thoughts, actions, images, feelings, objects, stories...) that, by the way, are getting faster and also smaller and smaller. Our task is to make sense of them by finding their connections.