area 115+ | relax

architect: Mirko Tattarini Monti

year: 2011

Aston Martin opens the doors to the world of interior design with a completely new furniture collection, aimed at inspiring design addicts with designs that interpret the very values on which the prestigious car manufacturer has built its success. The collection is characterized by an integrated range of products for the home, the office and contracts, complete with accessories and illumination. Distinguished by a markedly contemporary and rigorously Italian-made style, the collection represents a synthesis between advanced industrial technologies as those used for parts in carbon and kevlar and the use of high quality leather, felted wool and cashmere, briar and natural stone. With its futuristic, essential and minimalistic lines, the Aston Martin Coach is inspired by the forms and curves that distinguish the cars made by the prestigious English car manufacturer. Featuring internal structure in steel and wool, covered with leather that has been aniline-dyed in vats, upholstered with differentiated density latex and fibres, the couch is supported by an external structure available in brushed aluminium or black carbon. Elegant and decidedly contemporary, the Aston Martin Chaise Longue immediately catches the eye with its seductive, fascinating and futuristic lines. The curves are not only reminiscent of the unmistakeable style of the brand, but also synonymous with the very best in comfort and relax. The self-supporting body is made in carbon fibre with inserts in brushed aluminium. The padding, fastened to the body by elastic bands that terminate in clasps in polished aluminium, is in memory form polyurethane covered by leather or felted wool, and is available in various colours.

Mirko Tattarini is a designer and a rider born on the Amiata Mountain in the south of Tuscany. In 1995 he graduates at the ISIA of Florence, and he is contributor on design and new technologies for several journals while professing a cyber-militancy in the Italian underground circuits. He founds Lagos Design in 1996 aiming to apply the methodology of Italian design to the new digital domain. In 1998 he starts teaching at the ISIA of Florence where he obtained the chair of Communication Design. In 2005 he opens a Lagos subsidiary in Sofia, where he mainly follows interiors and product design projects. In 2006 he wins the concept competition for a skyscraper to be built in Burgas, Bulgaria. The launch of Design Apparat is his last but not less exciting adventure.