Platinum Furniture · 2020
Talento Unlimited Cabinet
- Platinum A' Design Award 2020 in Furniture
- CLIENT: Laurameroni Design Collection
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 2,169,178
- Verification code 08E48187CB · Verify this award
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About Talento Unlimited Cabinet
Talento is a tall storage cabinet designed for keeping objects. The structure is made of wood or lacquered wood, and the two doors carry a liquid metal finish with the Unlimited texture. The cabinet measures 1000 millimetres in width, 520 millimetres in depth and 2000 millimetres in height. Rounded edges and a recessed handle define the profile. The composition balances full and empty areas through an alternation of depths and proportions. The textured surface is made with a dedicated silicone mould combined with the liquid metal finish.
About the Platinum A' Design Award
Talento Unlimited Cabinet is a Platinum A' Design Award winner, an extremely prestigious recognition granted to truly exceptional, elegant, and magnificent designs. Platinum winners are marvels of creation, testaments to the limits of intellectual creativity, and demonstrate the unmatched professionalism and genius of their designers. These designs are expected to be the most renowned works that define the aesthetics of an era, contribute to the well-being of society, and push the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Talento Unlimited Cabinet exhibits a transcendent level of excellence and unequivocally makes the world a better place with its advantageous and worthwhile characteristics. Talento Unlimited Cabinet is a Platinum A' Design Award-winning work that triggers desires, inspires, excites, delights, and sparks great joy.
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- Unique Properties
- Talento is a containing unit with a strong visual impact where crafstmanship and design come together in a wise balance of empty and full and an alternation of different depths and proportions. The new "UNLIMITED" texture in liquid metal embellishes and emphasizes the two doors. The rounded edges of the entire structure and the particular recessed handle represent a further detail which highlights the originality of the design. An architectural jewel designed and equipped for storing objects.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Width 1000 x Depth 520 x Height 2000
- Tags
- luxuryfurniture, cabinet, handmade, surfacedesign, moderncabinet, liquidmetal
- Production Technology
- Tall unit with structure in wood or lacquered wood and doors in "Liquid Metal" finish with "Unlimited" texture.
- Design Challenge
- The hardest part of Talento cabinet was to find a solution to realize the unique surface design with a innovative process. This process took one year in design and engineering research because a mould for this particular texture and finishing was not available. The final solution was the creation of a specific silicone mold to defined the surface design combining it with the liquid metal finishing.
- Research
- During the designing process, we started from a very simple shape trying to identifieda particular design product combined with a specfcandunique texture design for the surface. The result was really stunning. A unique surface technique combined with the artisan craftmenship.
- Inspiration
- I was inspired by the idea of enhancing the shapes of the object without exasperating them and using a simple aesthetic language. A cabinet that is caracterized by a unique surface finishing and a unique surface textured design.
- Project Duration
- The project started in Milano in 2018 and ended with the presentation during Milano Design week 2019.
- Operation Flow
- Every details of this particular cabinet, like the structure's round and smooth profile, is a result of a skillfull craftmenship and has been designed to make the product immediately recognizable.
- Image Credits
- #1 - Vincenzo Caccia
#2 - Vincenzo Caccia
#3 - Vincenzo Caccia
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#5 - Vincenzo Caccia