Conviviality will save the world!

“In our post-industrial society the most urgent struggle is not the one for the emancipation of individuals, but the one for interpersonal communication, for the emancipation of the relational dimension of existence” - Nicolas Bourriaud

Since our university years and our first projects together we’ve been focusing on objects that facilitate conviviality. What sort of objects are we talking about? Objects which do not discriminate between users, which disappear to leave the limelight to them,, which create space for the joy of being together. We believe in conviviality as the opposite to consumerism and that’s a very strong trait of Mediterranean peoples. Perhaps it is our attitude to just be, together, in front of a landscape, in the midst of a swarming market square, in the shade of a chirping tree, which leads us to design and use a chair. it is interesting to notice that, speaking of Mediterranean cultures, two images immediately come to mind: the sea and a set table with food on it. They are both surfaces of an omnidirectional exchange. Both lead us to reflect, to look at one other, to smile.