S20M /
Antonio Ventimiglia
S20M /
Antonio Ventimiglia
We have chosen to associate to Alberto Rosselli’s Jumbo, designed in 1968, the colours of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick’s movie released in the same year.
The movie is considered one of the greatest masterpieces in the history of cinema and one of the most refined expressions of the period called “Space Age”.
Rosselli’s interest in experimenting the use of abstract materials and shapes allowed to some of his most iconic products to be part of the space imaginary of those years and in fact they were used in some TV or cinema masterpieces such as Space 1999, 007 The Spy Who Loved Me and others.
The 2001 red palette, Hal’s eye, the astronauts’ suits, the furnishings of the Discovery ship, the blues of the spaceship structures and of the outdoor spaces, the browns and warm yellows of the final scenes, form the chromatic scale of our 10 Jumbos.
Saporiti Italia and SITE have collaborated in various interesting projects, including the Eco-Chair collection. For this reason, Saporiti asked Suzan and James Wines to work on the colors of the 100+1 Exhibition.
James Wines is the founder and president of SITE, an environmental art and architecture studio founded in New York City in 1970. A graduate of Syracuse University School of Art, he has been President of Environmental Design at the Parsons School of Design and then Professor of Architecture at the Penn State University.
He designed public spaces, landscapes, performances and environmental artworks all over the world and he has written many books on art and design.
He received many prizes, including the Smithsonian Institution National Design Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Chrysler Award for Design Innovation, the National Endowment for the Arts and awards from institutions such as the Kress Foundation, the American Academy of Rome, the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, Graham and Ford Foundations.
Suzan Wines is an architect and the founder of I-Beam Design, an award-winning architecture and design firm based in New York. Suzan is also SITE’s senior architect and director.
She served as the New York correspondent for Italian architecture magazine Domus.
She taught at Cooper Union, Pratt Institute and Parsons New School for Design.
She is currently an associate professor at the Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of New York. For her works with SITE and I‐Beam she won numerous awards and she has been mentioned in books, publications and exhibitions around the world. Suzan has written several books and lectured in numerous universities and museums, including the Triennale in Milan.
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