“Three lines for a bed”: this is the title of the my idea for the 2nd Competition “Material Wood”, announced by Riva1920 in Cantù in 2002.
Three lines: first of all (\), the most important one, is a backslash and schematises the inclined head of the bed.
The second line is the horizontal one (—–): a lot of minus signs that schematize the plane on which the mattress is set.
The third one in the end is the vertical ( | ), the line that takes the structure back to the ground.
The result therefore reads like this: \—-| the lines that represent exactly the lateral profile of the bed in competition.
Technically speaking, the structure of the bed, as well as that of all the other complements of the furniture, is in solid heartwood. Its thickness is deliberately inflated in order to emphasize the importance of the material, the undisputed protagonist of this competition as well as of the whole Riva1920 production.
The two variants proposed for the bedside tables are both indissoluble from the bed, as the oblique cut of the back part testifies, which in this way adapts itself perfectly to the inclined head of the bed. The first version proposes a support plan which is in effect a miniature of the bed itself; the second one is a real bedside table accessorized with a “hung” drawer.
The bridge structure returns in the chest of drawers and it emphasizes the importance of the solid heartwood even more. In the 5 proposed variants the structure remains faithful to the philosophy and the lines of the project, even in its unusual aerial variant hung on the wall.
