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Konstantin Grcic introduces his lounge chair, NiTzan CohEn plays solo and the Bouroullec brothers update their OSSO family for Mattiazzi

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Working with Mattiazzi is comparable to work with an organic farm.â&#x20AC;?

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Friuli lays in the very northeast of Italy, borders Carinthia and Slowenia and stretches southwards to the Adriatic.

Friulano is a Language by itself and Friuli grows some of Italy’s finest ... wine as well as furniture. It’s a mountainous country with rich mineral resources serving as natural fertilizer for it’s outstanding Sauvignon grapes. The landscape is a little harsher and steeper than the gentle looking sceneries of central Italy one might be used to. This special geographic area enjoys both the mountains as well as the sea, forming a nourishing backdrop for a vivid culture of making. The eastern part of Friuli, towards the hilly border of Slowenia, nurtures a long and rich tradition of handicraft and woodworking. It was a natural

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Experts in the field of high-quality wood processing they base the family business on clear concepts and exceptional ideas.

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process in which industry grew from the craft, leading many specialists from all scopes of wood processing to established themselves in the area. In 1979, brothers Nevio and Fabbiano Mattiazzi founded a wood workshop barring their family name and specialising in the production of top quality wooden chairs.

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New in 2012: MC 4 Konstantin Grcic

Medici Designing for Mattiazzi was a sort of personal time travel which took me all the way back to my professional roots. At the very beginning of my career I was trained a cabinet maker. Working with wood is what I learnt from scratch, it is where it all started for me. Mattiazzi make furniture in wood. They master the material not only in its traditional form but also using newest digital production technologies. MEDICI was born there, on the factory floor where things are physically made. The chair is inspired by the material, by the machinery and, of course, by the skill and craftsmanship of the people we worked with.

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Right from the beginning I was looking for a distinct grammar for my design, a language which is very true to the material. I like the idea of wood cut into planks which is how it is processed in the first place: the tree is sliced into planks. I like the way a carpenter joins wood, very immediate and direct. The construction remains bare open, plain and legible. Structure turns into form.

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MEDICI is conceived as a low chair with a comfortably reclined posture. Its generous dimension gives the chair an embracing confidence. The chair can be imagined as solitary furniture or in small groups. It can be used in private or public, indoors and outdoors. It is produced in three different woods: American wallnut, douglas fir and thermo-treated ash which can be used outdoors. The douglas fir version is available in natural as well as yellow and grey stain.

“Right from the beginning I was looking for a distinct grammar for my design, a language which is very true to the material.”

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Passion, competence, and their years long handicraft familiarity with the particularities of wood have always served as a basis of their work. Traditional skill is complemented by state-of-the-art machinery and an environmental friendly energy efficient infrastructure.

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The wood which primarily comes from the surrounding forests, does not undergo any chemical treatment. It is then processed with CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY. The roofs of the productions halls an advanced solar farm, supplying all machines and production needs with in-house solar energy. Adding to the environmental efficiency and healthy logic, all wood rests are used in the winter to heat up the factory. All Mattiazzi products are produced with great environmental sensibility and enjoy a minimal environmental footprint.

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Mattiazzi is passionate about wood and delivers exceptional craftsmanship bringing in mind other times and standards. Giving a rare quality promise and trusting highquality products the company forms carefully it’s growing collection.

Since 2009, Mattiazzi is presenting its own collection in the premium furniture market. Art directors Nitzan Cohen and Florian Lambl are the curators of the collection and through their collaborative work with world acclaimed designers stands a unique and thoughtful collection of characters. A combination of uncompromising design with high-quality processing which caught people’s attention from the very first moment. Being true to uncompromising quality Mattiazzi collaborates with the design elite. Designers Nitzan Cohen, Sam Hecht, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, and Konstantin Grcic used and expressed their inspiring encounter with Mattiazzi’s philosophy and the special circumstances within wood working in their designs. Each collection is unmistakeably characterised and represents a strong idea. However, the ideas are rooted in the passione of the Mattiazzi family and their exceptional team, always taking on new challenges with great curiosity and passion.

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My chair series HE SAID / SHE SAID was the first product of the Mattiazzi collection. By now, the works by Sam Hecht, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, and Konstantin Grcic have entered and form an exciting discourse and dialogue. Solo continues this discourse but from a slightly different point of view, a more reduced one. When SOLO was developed, the aim was to incorporate as much advantages as possible coming from the Mattiazzi production process and combining it into a cost efficient, versatile unique chair.

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“SOLO is more of a character, a bit hard but very round, very simple but a also intricate, practical and pragmatic but offering quiet much … ”

We can happily say now that this aim was successfully reached and SOLO is cost efficient like no other series in the Mattiazzi collection. Yet, it still upholds the quality level of handicraft and the love of details its predecessors so successfully marked. This robust yet simple and refined furniture family was sought to be used in cafés and restaurants, which is why it offers great flexibility – both in use and in the variations offered. However, though simplicity was the outspoken key feature we were almost forced into, it was very important to find the right nuance and tune the right detail as means of accurately forming the right character for each piece. Though in every project special details plays here a key role, here they became even more important since we could not have too many if wanted to maintain our cost efficiency. Such details and a special feature of both chair and stool is a leather inlay perfectly matched in the seat surface. Offering wider colour matching possibilities as well as the great tactile qualities of natural leather. Playing further with SOLO’s versatility and offering a wider range of possibilities, we continued and developed together with a local craftsman a finely sawn leather upholstery for the chair’s backrest.

SOLO is more of a character, a bit hard but very round, very simple but a also intricate, practical and pragmatic but offering quiet much ... it’s a café chair , and a bar stool which makes no fuss about what it does (…) A character who plainly says: ‘Have a seat’ and one happily complies …

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Stool, Barstool and Tables

Working with Mattiazzi is comparable to work with an organic farm. While being a small, family-owned company that has been manufacturing chairs for others since about thirty years, Mattiazzi decided to do less yet better. By using sophisticated CNC set of tools and at the same time a greatly refined manual know-how, Mattiazzi has a hybrid

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way to consider furniture production. We were particularly interested by the fact that all the equipment is powered by solar energy and that the wood is coming from the surrounding areas to be carefully selected without the use of any chemical treatments. They came back to the basics and this is precisely what piqued our interest and our fascination for the Mattiazzi family. As designers, we feel involved in supporting such valiant microstructures that are always on the edge as they try to adjust to a constantly changing market. That said, the Osso chair had to be the illustration of what Mattiazzi is in its roots. We designed an object in plain wood but not in regular plain wood, the quality of the wood literally makes the object, like the best piece of meat would make the refinement of a dish. Our intention was to let the sensuality of the wood material – from oak to maple to ash – express itself. The Osso chair invites to be touched, even caressed as it is extremely sculpted and polished thanks to the use of highly sophisticated digital control equipment. The hightech assembling system of geometrical wood panels allows a quite singular strength while preserving a design balance of the object. The Osso collections includes a chair, an armchair as well as high and low stools and a complete range of tables.

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