Jacopo FOGGINI (designer)<br />
 EDRA, Pisa (manufacturer)<br/>
<em>Alice armchair</em> (2011) {designed}; (2016) {manufactured} <!-- (view 2) --><br />

polycarbonate, LEDs, electrical components<br />
78.3 x 95.0 x 115.5 cm<br />
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne<br />
Purchased with funds donated by Gordon Moffatt AM, 2017<br />
2017.2<br />
© JACOPO FOGGINI
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Alice armchair

Jacopo Foggini

Poltrona Alice

Jacopo Foggini

NGV ITALIA

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Supported by the Italian Australian Foundation

NGV ITALIA

Discover stories of Italian art, design, culture and life in the NGV Collection through dedicated events and resources, and explore two millennia of Italian painting, sculpture, prints and drawings, decorative arts and textiles, brought together for the first time on this site.

Supported by the Italian Australian Foundation

Working in his family’s plastic company from a young age, Italian artist and designer Jacopo Foggini discovered a love for experimenting and working with industrial materials, including methacrylate, a material used in the automotive industry to produce headlights. Inventing machines that can heat the material to a temperature required to produce a thread-like filament, Foggini learnt to model luminous design and works of art made by a maze of plastic threads in intertwining colours. Alice armchair is composed of one long continuous thread of polycarbonate, applied manually into the mould as if extruded from a tube of paint.

Lavorando fin da giovane nell’azienda di plastica di famiglia, l’artista e designer italiano Jacopo Foggini scoprì l’amore per la sperimentazione e la lavorazione di materiali industriali, tra cui il metacrilato, un materiale utilizzato nell’industria automobilistica per produrre i fari. Inventando macchine in grado di riscaldare il materiale alla temperatura necessaria per produrre un filamento filiforme, Foggini imparò a modellare progetti luminosi e opere d’arte realizzate con un labirinto di fili di plastica dai colori intrecciati. La poltrona Alice è composta da un unico lungo filo continuo di policarbonato, applicato manualmente nello stampo come se fosse estruso da un tubo di vernice.

Jacopo FOGGINI (designer)
EDRA, Pisa (manufacturer)
Alice armchair (2011) {designed}; (2016) {manufactured}
polycarbonate, LEDs, electrical components
78.3 x 95.0 x 115.5 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Gordon Moffatt AM, 2017
2017.2
© JACOPO FOGGINI

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