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Reader Submitted: Memobilia: Unfinished Classical Furniture with Digitally Fabricated Elements

Memobilia links crafted unfinished classical furniture and digital fabricated elements. Due to financial crisis, many companies of the Italian furniture district had to close; furniture of this collection were all lying in a defaulted family workshop, on the master carver working table, abandoned together with their artisans’ knowhow. We believe there’s nothing lost; designers should find the gap between old craft and new technologies as an opportunity for continuity. Suggesting a new relation among industry and craftsmanship, caravan designed five pieces that play with machining, materials and crafts.