Digital Primitives

Modelling and numerical control in the work of two New York-based designers: Caterina Tiazzoldi from Italy and Eduardo Benamor Duarte from Portugal.

Caterina Tiazzoldi and Eduardo Benamor have labelled themselves with the ironic oxymoron “digital primitives”. Although born and raised professionally with innovative computer techniques such as modelling and computerised numeric control, they work in New York, a city – they explain – that is a real urban jungle for anyone who wants to reach beyond the usual scheme of things. “We are like primitive men who use sophisticated digital clubs,” explains the Italian designer who teaches at Columbia University but flies to Italy to test her products, where she relies on the artisans’ expertise and creativity. At the Furniture Fair, Tiazzoldi and Duarte present a chair and a bookcase. The Rapigattoli Chair by Duarte mixes tradition and modernity, made from unfinished wood but worked with CNC cutters. The Parametric Bookshelves by Tiazzoldi (a design developed with Lorenza Croce and Dora Keller) can be multiplied in infinite variations thanks to the parametric design that allows the creation of made-to-measure objects, a bit like tailor-made clothes.
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Digital Primitives

Modelling and numerical control in the work of two New York-based designers: Caterina Tiazzoldi from Italy and Eduardo Benamor Duarte from Portugal.

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