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Lego

Draga & Aurel

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Lego consolle - Max Zambelli
Lego consolle - Max Zambelli
Lego consolle detail - Max Zambelli
Lego consolle - Max Zambelli

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Dimension
Low table: 200 x 80 H36 cm, 184 x 80 H36 cm, 168 x 80 H36 cm Consolle: 183 x 45 H90 cm, 168 x 43 H90 cm, 153 x 41 H90 cm
Completion
2020
Material
Concrete eroded by sea salt and sandblasted aluminium

The word “Lego” has a double meaning in Italian: it means to join, to link but it also recalls the famous game that brought together the childhood of countless children, including that of the designers Draga & Aurel, giving the joy of being able to build something real. Hence the choice of this name for the low tables and the console which are the result of the embrace of geometric shapes, perfect together but harmonious and solid even separated. 

The main materials for these pieces are concrete eroded by sea salt and sandblasted metal elements. Precious and rough, refined and raw, shiny gold and mat black. This apparent oxymoron translates in one unit with two souls, one in metal, the other in concrete. Metal is worked using sand casting: a “master model” is employed to make a sand mould which is going to be filled in with the cast metal. The thin sand allows to give a three-dimensional texture to the metal, which subsequently is handpolished. Then, the metal is lacquered in any of the lacquer included in the Visionnaire selection of metal finishes (i.e. gold, chrome, black nickel, etc). 

The materic nature of the concrete, poured into a reinforced mould, is made even more evident by means of an erosive treatment and black lacquering. These products (low table and console) can be adjusted in size by simply fixing the fittings of the two parts in different positions. Visionnaire expands its Art-design proposal, placing the great challenge of contextualizing in an industrial and replicability perspective a product with the characteristics of "single piece". 

An almost Renaissance attitude for the propensity to experiment and the individual commitment made in the genesis and realization of the artifact.