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Designer: Giovanni Tommaso Garattoni

Year: 2016


Soft Machine is a sculptural object with streamlined fluid lines, inspired by Bolidismo. The sofa is named after a novel by Americanwriter William Burroughs, “The Soft Machine”, and the eponymous rock band of the ‘60s. 

It is a soft dwelling machine, born of the Italian love

for speed. A culture of form that moves through

the Futuristic aesthetics and evolves into Bolidismo,with a dynamism of forms derived in part from Futurism and American streamlined design but also contaminated with

references to organic forms, the archite.

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