Fabio Novembre
Fabio Novembre ( born October 21, 1966 in Lecce ) is an Italian designer and architect. He works for Casamania, Cappellini and Driade.
Life
Fabio Novembre graduated in Milan to study architecture in 1993 and moved to New York where he wanted to attend a government course at the University. After his interest had turned to the design, he moved to Hong Kong. There he verwirktlichte Anna Molinari Blumarine Store with his first project. In 1994 he returned to Milan, and lay there a studio where he designed more stores for Anna Molinari, which have been established in London, Singapore and Taipei. After that, he first designed more interior architectural objects, including hotels, bars, catering establishments, shops and showrooms. The design of furniture dedicated Fabio Novembre intensified from 2001. He designed, among other things, the Table Series Org, the sofas And and Divina and the chair Nemo.
In 2009 he exhibited at the Milan Furniture Fair in front of the chairs pair of Him & Her, which has been discussed controversially. At the front of the Panton Chair reminding that show molded polyethylene chairs on the back of each one plastic molded kneeling male and female act, which is flush with the back of a chair at about the level of the shoulder blades.
Naked bodies or body parts dive in Novembre oeuvre frequently. So he adorned about the Milan discotheque Divina with numerous reproductions of famous women's record of the history of art. Before the Bar of the lettering L' Origine du Monde, also flaunts a gigantically enlarged version of the eponymous painting by Gustave Courbet. The London Anna Molinari Store has an input, which is lined with similarly huge woman legs ( also a quote, this time from the pop art of the 1960s, this), and the Shu Café in Milan is decorated with oversized woman arms. The leather sofa Divina reminds formally Möebel twenties, but has a plastic backrest in the shape of a naked woman, reminiscent of the bad copy of a Henry Moore sculpture.
In addition to the human body play in Novembre works the Christian symbolism, especially the confrontation with the Catholic Church an important role. In the course of his project Be your own messiah, he had his photo taken as Jesus. Has its origin in this rebellion already Novembre childhood: He wanted to never accept to be expelled by God from paradise, he once explained in an interview.
Exhibitions
- 2008 Teach me the freedom of swallows, Rotonda di Via Besana Museum in Milan
- 2009 Il fiore di Novembre, Triennale Design Museum of Milan