Robot is a drawer unit respecting its original project, conceived by architect Mario Botta in 1989. On the occasion of Milan Salone del Mobile 2023 it returns as part of Alias collection. Characterised by overlapping of drawers, connected to each other thanks to a metallic supporting structure, Robot looks like a column. Its superior part can be opened and become a writing desk. With its ash solid wood with coloured stain finish and a black steel lacquered structure, Robot represents the idea of an object which doesn’t have a predefined shape equivalent to a sequence of drawers one on top of each other. It may acquire a variety of shapes when you take out some or all of its drawers in various combinations thanks to a smart game of decompositions.
About ROBOT
“The small incisions appearing along the vertical edges of this rectangular object when it is lifted up, apparently fluctuant, point out its functions: it is a bookstand on top of a drawer. This apparent simplicity is immediately contradicted as soon as you get in contact with it. The idea of a finished presence even when it is not being used. And also the idea of an object which does not necessarily have a predefined shape equivalent to a sequence of drawers one on top of each other. It may acquire a variety of shapes when you take out some or all of its drawers in various combinations. This smart game of decompositions especially sections our way of looking at objects, taking out from them the comprehension of new ways for conceiving their construction”. (Mario Botta The complete works 1985-1990 Volume II, Federico Motta Editore, Milano 1994)
