The theme video that greets visitors to Ventura Lambrate this year is a tempting invitation to pursue design... and literally, chase it. A bizarre troupe of chairs crosses the space at a fast pace, then more slowly and, after a few gym exercises, reappears in via Crespi 24 in the form of static architectural objects.

Produced after a stock of cherry wood was retrieved from a former carpenter’s shop deposit in Varese, Musical Chairs was presented at the Fuorisalone 2013 by Milanese studio MammaFotogramma. The chairs were originally conceived in collaboration with IED for an animation workshop, featuring a mobile structure with a system of mechanical joints that lent itself to all the configurations needed to produce a stop-motion video with more than 4000 frames.

“Movement is an integral part of our film but also of our architectural work”, explains Giulio Masotti of MammaFotogramma. “As an architect and designer, I see movement as a way to tease out all the details of an object.”