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BIO
Caterina Artegiani is an architect. After working abroad and collaborating with a studio for seven years, she specialised in display design and consultancy for the retail sector. She is in charge of communication and product and furniture design for her parents-in-law’s carpenter’s shop, which allows her to apply her competencies to small series design.
OBJECT IDENTITY CARD
NADIA LA MADIA
Collection of cupboards made of solid beech and ash, dry mounted through “thorns”. These “thorns” are visible, serving both a ufnctional and an aesthetical
purpose.
Dates and Places
Year: 2015
Design place: Mantua
Place of production: Mantua
Partner
falegnameria Contesini
Materials
side and top panels in beech wood
bottom panel, drawers, and big drawer with wheels in olive ash
treated with natural beeswax
Manufacturing process
solid wood dry mounted through “thorns”, i.e. small wooden cylinders
