Italian Furniture by Designer Enzo Mari
Enzo Mari is a legendary furniture designer and avid collector of everyday objects. His work was infused by adversity to mass consumerism, fame, and material excess during the post-war in Italy.
He influenced generations of designers and collectors with his material theory-conscious principles, sustainable production & contribution to the Arte Programmata.
Disdainful of marketing and retail, his lifelong project was to transform the world by freeing us from passive consumerism, the ways design had become increasingly "merchandised".
Fighting for the symbolic significance of an object rather than its "banal" use, he immediately started a tirade against the design industry's approaches. Mari was angered by the lack of socially responsible design (SRD); he believed methods should have integrity and collective awareness.
Despite multiple celebrated Enzo Mari chairs, such as the Sof Sof for Driade and Delfina, he often questioned the reason behind why he should even bother producing another chair.
Designing sustainable concepts and his pursuit to question the meaning of form, he was questionably a man before his time; take a peek into Enzo Mari's design concepts and add a timeless story to your decor.