Griante
Pedrali - 2025
Together we stand.
Griante is a chair in which the supporting and supported elements mechanically collaborate to ensure the stability of the whole. The two textile shells are apparently suspended from two lateral leg bridges. In fact, the seat and backrest are made with aluminum frames covered with a woven belt. When these components are assembled to the wooden leg bridges, the whole is solid and of great composure.
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Tape playing.
The tape we designed is divided into five tubular sectors, slightly soft, able to adapt with minimal section variations useful for covering the entire surface. The tape is mono-material and recyclable, made from a polypropylene yarn. The latter has excellent resistance to atmospheric agents, in addition to a slightly disheveled hand that refracts the light making it opaque and pleasant to the touch.
Griante is designed so that the shells are woven separately and then assembled to the wooden components. This constructive logic of the object, for which the components are distinct on both a practical and perceptive level, makes its disassembly intelligible. The manual artisan operation is also preserved, but inserted into a sustainable industrial process in which the movement of bulky frames is avoided.
The woodwork is sober, minimal: turned cylindrical legs and an elliptical section armrest, soft despite its austerity, with a narrowing of the section near the junction with the rear leg. The colour of the wood, the natural, lively irregularity of the texture humanises the formal rigor. The wood is iroko in the outdoor version, ash in the indoor version.
WANDERLUST
Square cut.
The rigor of Griante, combined with the insistence on the repetition of the square that informs the geometry of the object, from the weave to the proportions of the seat, derives from a syncretic aesthetic language in which we have brought together the Shaker tradition, the Wiener Werkstaette and the most idealistic Danish designers. The visual material that comes to us from these traditions, as well as the attention they place on formal research as an anthropological fact, as an exaltation of vernacular culture, has taken on an original form in Griante’s development, dictated by the most innovative production methods.
It is still not entirely clear why cricketers of all times aspire to make a square cut brandishing an armrest of the Griante lounge chair.