Calla #SheerPermanently by Simone Cappellanti
Simone Cappellanti's “Calla” (Calla Lily) is a chair inspired by the beautiful evergreen plant. Its structure is a unique block (in plastic material) formed by seatback, seat and legs. A fabric pillow completes the design.
Its slim and refined form (but structured and resistant, at the same time) together with its elegant and sinuous look, make the Calla appropriate for all kind of interior. Calla, with its unique design, resumes the research process of elastic sinuosity of human body, as Verner Panton did with in 1960 his prototype of Sedia.
I started drawing it on my Moleskine with a 4B pencil, trying to exemplify the form, but, above all, looking for a logic symmetry, visualizing all the possible shadows that it would have created under different kind of lights. Afterwards, I opened a plan without partition on my software Cinema 4D r16 by MAXON and I started making the needed cuts to build the basic geometric model. Afterwards, I put it in a NURBS and I refinished it till its final form.
Once I had the 3D geometric model through the software vRay (1.9) I represented it with plastic materials and fabric (for the pillow) and I realized the renders in high resolution (4096 × 3112 pixel)
The design is still very young and it has appeared only on small publications (behance, some websites, etc), therefore I didn’t receive any feedback, yet. For now, we just finished the prototype and, shortly, we will start finding a father for the evergreen chair.
About Simone Cappellanti
Simone Cappellanti was born in Rome in 1972. After a few years, he discovered his favourite pastime: a bi-optic Yashica Mat 124 G. And from that moment, he never stopped. He attended the artistic high school and the Conservatory, in Rome. He uses, for his studies, graphic, art and design encyclopedias and begins writing his researches on his first computer: an Apple Ile. He graduated from Valle Giulia and becomes architect in the same year. He replaced his old drawing table with a 3D modeling software, without completely abandoning his pencil. He took a PhD in Technique Physics and continues his research that ended with some International Issues and a thesis on a new project of Passive House. Meanwhile, his passion for teaching lead him to teach Technique Physics, Architectural Design and Drawing and Relief.
Finding completeness (through photography, music and painting, with architecture as philological summa), he traveled worldwide for three years. He came back to Rome and opened his own studio. Today, in his studio where you'll see an iMacPro (that replaced the old Apple Ile), pencils (always the real protagonist of each idea) and, above all, the drawing table, reappeared as main character in this story. The italian flag, an important work of the Master Sergio Edward Linchi, the picture on anodized aluminum of the soccer team Roma Captain with the Yashica Mat 124 G and Mozart symphonies surround the artistic minds. In 2010 Simone married Valentina who is treble clef on the music staff of his life.