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.
SOFT MACHINE
Design: Giovanni Tommaso Garattoni
“Only in the individuality of everyday life can one draw that line of separation that does not suppress the creative emergence of consciousness.” (Agnès Heller)