THE NEW YORK TIMES
Mattia Bonetti
Here's a show that might brighten your mood in these dark economic times. Either that or the glossy spectacle of Mattia Bonetti's conspicuously expensive-looking furniture will make you want to start a Communist revolution. With and insouciant disregard for...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
Mattia Bonetti
MATTIA BONETTI is a soft-spoken, Swiss-born, Paris-dwelling designer who makes very loud furniture: lozenge-shape tables and consoles of lacquered fiberglass that resemble ribbon candy; a patinated bronze chair with a furry Drano-blue hide seat...
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TOWN AND COUNTRY
Mattia Bonetti
A lounge chair supported by what seemed to be over-sized Smarties candies. A chest of drawers made up of dizzying reflective planes - with no drawer pulls. A side table that looks like a mirror hovering over the strands of a giant black-pearl necklace...
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ARUDE MAGAZINE
Between Art and Design
You were born in 1952. Was this a good vintage year for an avant-garde, forward-looking designer to be born? Some of the most notable minds of our time were born in the same decade, Ron Arad in 1951, Jaspar Morrison in 1959, just to name two. History has shown us that some extraordinarily gifted designers or architects didn’t make it only because they were born in the wrong time...
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ELLE DECOR
Garouste & Bonetti
Every so often a designer team comes along whose work defines a moment. Postwar America, for example, is inextricably linked with Charles and Ray Earnes. As for the 1980s, Elizabeth Garouste and Mattia Bonetti spring to mind, and for good reason...
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