| FIAM ITALIA |
Originality and technological innovation: so we could summarize in a simple and essential way the history and the production of this company by now famous in the furnishings design European panorama.
To make the glass free from the historical role of ornamental complement, was the challenge that had pushed in 1973 Vittorio Livi, young entrepreneur and designer, to lembark on the enterprise of the "bent crystal".
It was a technological and handicraft revolution, that made the company a leader in this field. With other successful experiences Fiam conjugates the tradition of the handicraft working (from one of the richest areas in handicraft work, as Marche) with the technological innovations of the bent crystal: the furnishings design as a result of the challenge to physical and chemical laws, its particular plasticity.
Fiam furnishings design collections, unique for their extraordinary shapes and for technological innovation and technical details, were born from the encounter with illustrious designers, like Enzo Mari, Giugiaro design and Philippe Starck, just to quote few of them.
Led by an extreme sperimental policy , Fiam nowadays shows up on the markets with a double profile: as a furnishings complements maker - tables, armchairs, cabinets - and as manufacturer of ornamental objects, realized with the collaboration of the greatest contemporary artists. The most representative are: Fontana by Bruno Munari, Hypotenuse by Vittorio Livi or Scultura in vetro by Umberto Mariani.
Some Fiam Italia products gained international fame, so to be exhibited as part of the design collections of the main museums of the world: perhaps the Atlas table and the Ghost armchair, at Musee DES Arts Decoratifs of Paris; the Dama console at Design Museum of London; the Tango table in the exhibition Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design at the M.O.M.A. of New York.
Very remarkable in the last collection the Caadre mirrors, designed by Philippe Starck, who reinterpreted the eighteenth century taste for reflected images and the ability to enrich indoor spaces with mirrors. Through a refined irony Starck realizes the object, bringing the silvering up till the frame and eventually enriching it with refined hand made engravings by Tuscan craftsmen. The collection proposes different dimensions mirrors, with a series of accessories that by their standing positioning can evoke images of old times high fashon ateliers.
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Text by:
Barbara Giannessi |
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In cooperation with:
M.Angeles Fernández Alvarez |
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