‘Ouverture’ couch by Pierluigi Cerri for Poltrona Frau is a contemporary basic reimagined

A polymath and a visionary, Pierluigi Cerri, born in 1939, sought perfection all through his profession – as an architect, designer, curator, editor, and tutorial – and continues to be a central determine within the Milanese artistic business. 

 Pierluigi Cerri and Poltrona Frau: ‘Ouverture’ couch 

Amongst Cerri’s collaborators is Poltrona Frau, one other big of Italian design, with whom the architect has labored for years. For the corporate, based mostly in Tolentino, Cerri envisioned considered one of his most cutting-edge items, the ‘Ouverture’ couch, a design basic conceived in 1982. 

The economic-looking, modular couch is paired with inviting and plush cushions that underline the heavy and brutalist steel construction – the skeleton of this piece of furnishings. A visible juxtaposition and an aesthetic contrasting with the inside design norm of the time, the piece is now 40 years previous and as up to date as ever.

‘With its brutalist construction, “Ouverture” highlights the system of beliefs that conceived it as a protest towards bourgeois conformism,’ says Cerri. ‘Ouverture’ (a reputation that interprets from French as ‘opening’) unlocks a metropolitan aesthetic that many years later remains to be revolutionary and extremely practical. The couch is available in totally different variations, in Poltrona Frau’s signature Pelle Frau leather-based in addition to textile upholstery.

On its fortieth birthday, ‘Ouverture’ brings again the language that broke the formalism of the time. It was a courageous and brave object capable of categorical an concept of opposition towards middle-class conformism, however on the identical time was realised and distributed by one of many manufacturers that the majority embodied bourgeois residing.