{"title":"Franco Raggi","description":"\u003cp\u003eFranco Raggi was born in Milan in 1945 and graduated in architecture from the Politecnico di Milano in 1969. An editor of Casabella and later of MODO, he took part in the Radical collective Global Tools and in 1973 organised the first critical exhibition of Italian Radical Design, in Berlin. The On Off lamp he designed for Luceplan with Alberto Meda and Denis Santachiara is in MoMA’s collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor Poltronova he designed the Canton bench in 1988, a graphic wooden seat with an open compartment at each end, reissued in 2023 in red and green or blue and orange.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"poltronova-canton","title":"Canton","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Canton wooden bench, designed by Franco Raggi in 1988, fitted out with two spaces on the sides—containers for magazines, books and phone directories, still in use at the time—ideally designed for home entrances, «was born, —Franco Raggi writes—, from a graphic exercise: a black line which in its continuous path creates two squares connected by a horizontal line. Dragging this line into the third dimensions, I realised that the solid thus obtained could be a bench, not a comfortable seat, but for temporary use, where ergonomics could be sacrifice in favour of an abstract, almost neoplastic image. Books and things could be put in the squares transformed into open compartments.» In 2023, following the cataloging of the philological project of the 1980s, the Centro Studi Poltronova, together with the architect Franco Raggi, has brought out a new version of Canton, in two combinations, red and green, blue and orange, each with a positive and a negative version.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Poltronova","offers":[{"title":"Canton beech\/black","offer_id":42865301225557,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Canton Color red\/green","offer_id":42907690598485,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Canton Color green\/red","offer_id":42907690631253,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Canton Color blue\/orange","offer_id":42907690664021,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Canton Color orange\/blue","offer_id":42907690696789,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0101\/3822\/2677\/files\/canton-01-1792x1174px.jpg?v=1786611306"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0101\/3822\/2677\/collections\/franco-raggi-BW-1400x1400px.jpg?v=1792499995","url":"https:\/\/www.spacefurniture.com.au\/collections\/franco-raggi.oembed","provider":"Space Furniture AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}