Italian Designer Antonio Maria Privitera has been working as Studio Inesistente since 2009. Based in Sicily, the "nonlinear, contradictory and nonexistence studio" produces architecture, art and design, not for "a pure aesthetic and/or functional purpose [but] to translate and condense... some of the dynamics of contemporary society."
Case in point, his latest project: the "Spread 10Y" magazine rack.During the final months of last year, Italy has been the focus of international attention due to its political and economic crisis. Financial markets showed their distrust of the enormous Italian national debt and, which led Italy to the risk of concrete failure which could involve the whole of Europe. Even the most controversial figure of Italian politics in the last twenty years, Silvio Berlusconi, was forced to leave office in favour of a technical government led by Prof. Mario Monti.
During this agitated period, spread (the difference between Italian and German borrowing costs), especially in Italy, was the most used and disturbing word. This new term, previously unknown, has become the symbol of uncertainty and has burst into our dictionary and into our imaginations. Newspapers and magazines, around the world, have talked incessantly about the spread and its worrying fluctuations, and these days they are continuing to do so.
Thus, the craggy peaks and troughs are intended to hold those periodicals that might deliver the latest news about the Euro Zone. The surface is composed of 15 turns of hand-cut tulip wood, with a white lacquer drawer that limns the internal silhouette of the graph. Lastly, "a line of tin metal [indicated below], which follows a continuous notch, marks the transition between the government of Silvio Berlusconi and that of Mario Monti."
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