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.