Piegatto is born
There`s always a strong relation between the artist and his method, as one`s achievements are completely related to the way we do things, the materials we use and the instruments we utilize in achieving our goals.
A person with a stick drawing lines on the sand,
A person with some paint making figures on a wall,
A person with a hammer in one hand, a chisel in the other hitting a big white rock…
When did we became artists?
When we decided to bring to life something from within ourselves, when we express… not as an act of reasoning but as an act of consciousness.
Time evolves, materials evolve as instruments do, but the main issue is the same:
Express…
When you know how to draw a line its completely unimportant if its with a stick, with your hand, with a pencil or with a computer…
And when you know how to draw a line and you find out much more accurate ways in doing so, then you take this new ways of doing to create a work of art…
Art is about finding new ways for expressing ourselves…
So the idea was clear:
We start with one simple trace, the trace becomes an idea for an object, we start producing prototypes with this idea.
Workflow nurtures itself from testing, knowledge stays and grows from one design to another, as what you achieve in one design will be the start up for the next one.
When you understand this you start to produce. What has happened in all our products it`s been a continuos reinvention of the form and the concept as years pass by. The first S dining chair that we did is completly different as our last design, although every step of the process has led us to our last and non definitive design.
This means that in a period of time, the object will be subject to changes that are related to new experiences, new ways of seeing life and new technologies. There is no loss at all, as you start where you left things earlier.
Perfecting things…
So I take whatever I have at hand and start. Half days are wondering, trying to find out the next step, until I realize that there is no next step assured and I start all at once.
When I act without thinking is when I have the best results. Doing design is an exercise with myself, but at the same time is something that has to be for everybody. It`s like a personal impersonal act, as you never stop in thinking what would feel the other person, how he or she will accommodate or use it.