Kalusteet ja varusteet
Mara presents Typo the new collection designed by AMDL CIRCLE
Typo chair is available in natural oak, walnut, black stained natural beech but also in a special Limited Edition, in collaboration with Alpi Wood.
Photo: Nava Rapacchietta.
For the first time Mara collaborates with AMDL CIRCLE, the studio founded by Michele De Lucchi. The outcome is a dynamic seating collection full of harmonious contrasts, the result of a calibrated
technical experimentation.
“By making mistakes you learn, as they rightly say, and you don't suffer the paralysis of those who are
afraid to try something new and uselessly wait until they know how to swim before entering the water.”
- Michele De Lucchi.
Summed up here, in the statement of architect and creative genius Michele De Lucchi, is the key to
understanding the design from which comes Typo, Mara new chair designed by AMDL CIRCLE, the studio
founded by the architect. Typo, as a typing error, almost an accidental mistake. Instead, the nature of this
piece of furniture is the result of a calibrated experimentation, and what, at first glance, might appear to be
a flaw, is featuring its distinctive design.
Michele De Lucchi and the team of AMDL CIRCLE.
Photo: Mattia Pagani.
From this first collaboration between Mara and AMDL CIRCLE, that sees them united on the research front,
it emerges the urge to "try the new", to find new forms fostering the design to promote well-being and to
generate evolution. This mission has been achieved with Typo, which redefines the archetype of the office
chair on castors.
Soft lines design the backrest and seat, both in wood, and counterpoise the vigorous angularity of the
metal structure, shaping a dynamic silhouette, a synthesis of contrasts - in terms of lines as well as of
materials. On the one hand, wood, ductile and warm, namely AMDL CIRCLE's material of choice; on the
other hand, metal, part of Mara DNA, a sturdy and malleable material that, like facing a new challenge, the
company learned to work with superlative manufacturing skills.
Two materials that not only have a strong identity, but are also extremely sustainable and recyclable at the
end of their lives.
It is precisely in the metal structure that the focal point of Typo design lies. Starting from the study of how
to bend steel profiles, through an unconventional finetuning it was achieved an unprecedented effect: by
bending a square-section steel tube along the diagonal, the material deforms, curling and sharply creasing.
This detail generates the intentional and sought-after 'error' that is the soul of the project.
"A mistake, which together with Mara - whom we share with a constant drive for innovation - we managed
to keep controlled, through a carefully refined technique that generates it, so to guarantee a mass
production of the object," says the AMDL CIRCLE project team.
Photo: Nava Rapacchietta.
Playing on material contrasts, a soft, textile detail has been added, a regenerated cotton strip that comes
out of the structure, as a characterising but even more functional finesse: thanks to this hook, connected to
an inserted mechanism in the square tube, it is in fact possible to adjust the height of the backrest.
Thanks to these aesthetic, material and design features, the Typo collection – comprising a chair and a stool
- lends itself to furnishing a multiplicity of contexts: the office world, where it fits in with functionality and
ergonomics; the heterogeneous hospitality dimension, which it aligns with through extreme versatility and
original appeal; and residential contexts, increasingly open to hybrid and dynamic design.
Typo thus becomes a place of work as well as of meeting, conviviality and even relaxation at any time. Its
expressive possibilities are therefore infinite and sublimated into a fascinating result like the special
Limited Edition unveiled at the Salone del Mobile.Milano.
The collaboration with AMDL CIRCLE is a new and exclusive milestone in the growth and consolidation of
Mara brand. The company can number the studio among the shortlist of its international creatives and this
in fact marks the achievement of a significant goal in the design development of the brand: an opportunity
for research, innovation, but also for comparison and relationship. All that to broaden the perspectives of
Mara design and to achieve surprising results.
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