ROBOT Collection

Mario Botta, 1989 / Re-edition 2023

Designed by architect Mario Botta in 1989, ROBOT chest of drawers represents a domestic totem, a small multi-storey architecture that rises in height like a ten-storey tower.
Featured by overlapping drawers connected by a metal support structure, Robot is configured as a column, whose upper part can be opened with a simple gesture and become a writing desk. 

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ROBOT

Made of solid ash wood with coloured stain finish and a black lacquered steel structure, Robot is an object without the predefined shape of stacked drawer sequence but can take on a variety of forms by extracting some or all of the drawers in various combinations through an intelligent decomposition play.

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Mario Botta

He was born in Mendrisio in 1943 and graduated from the Iuav University of Venice, where he worked with Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn. He has carried out teaching and research in Europe, Asia and America. Since 1982 he has been collaborating with Alias, for which he designed Prima and Seconda, two of his most famous chairs, now on display at MoMA in New York, and the chest of drawers Robot. An award-winning architect, he has published several monographs, and founded the Swiss Academy of Architecture in 1996. He lives and works in Lugano.

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