World Champion Glass Ski // Project
Quando la storia dello sport incontra l’arte.
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GLASS. Is the professional link between Giorgio and Chiara,
they have been starting almost as for fun to challenge this
noble material, shaping and turning it into a scale model of
the first wooden Ski of the Olympic Champion Piero Gros to
celebrate in a unique and original way his 40 years from the
victory of the World Cup.
REVOLUTIONARY. Chiara and Giorgio have a desire: to leave
a mark which will speak of them, thanks to the originality
of the project World Champions Ski Glass. The creativeproductive concept of Giorgio and Chiara perfectly matches
the international designer’s signs who interpret the object-ski
through Art Design graphic textures.
DESIGN. GIOARA is also a Design Editor and the Art Director
Paola Colombari made it possible through the involvement of
four internationally famous Designers, Karim Rashid, Rodrigo
Almeida, Sergio J. Matos and Antonio Cagianelli, together with
Alberto Caramello who created the Ski Lamp texture dedicated
to Piero Gros, the World Cup Olympic Champion testimonial.
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“I am an enthusiast who likes beauty in
things. The glass transparency shows
up my most emotional and creative
side. I want to amaze and create a
dialog through our products. My will
of daring always has distinguished
my professional life, the desire of new
challenges has been the drive to send
me into the world that GIOARA will
feature with its creations”.
“I am a lover of glass and I am curious
by nature. I share my passion and my
living space where I work because I
want that my atelier, which I created and
where I grew up, becomes the cradle for
GIOARA. I like living my projects along the
way until accomplishment, challenging
the material and the expectations,
building up new horizons, developing
myself and enjoying this great
adventure together with people who are
supporting me with their knowledge and
their emotions.
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Chiara Ferraris
Photo:
Eloise Nania
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Giorgio Gros
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Francesco Dolfo
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As of 1981, the Galleria Paola Colombari has concentrated on
contemporary Italian and international Art Design. Following
her experience in twentieth century design, in particular the
work of Carlo Mollino, Paola Colombari founded in 1991 the
Edizioni Galleria Colombari producing works in limited editions
by emerging and established designers such as: Karim Rashid,
David Palterer, Garouste & Bonetti, Antonio Cagianelli, Pawel
Grunert, Riccardo Dalisi, Yacov Kaufman, Luca Sacchetti.
She has also collaborated with Ron Arad, Ettore Sottsass,
Mario Bellini, Matteo Thun, Bob Wilson and others. Gallerist
trendsetter today launches as designer Alessandra Roveda
and the new trend in Brazil. As of the year 2000, Paola
Colombari also deals with Contemporary Art, by artists such
as Andrea de Carvalho, Maïmouna Patrizia Guerresi, Steve
Thornton, Bogdan Vladuta, Matteo Peretti, Rachana Nagarkar,
Marisa Laurito. She is also involved with Cultural Management,
Art Director and exhibitions projects.
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Paola Colombari
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Piero Gros
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Born in Sauze d’Oulx (Occitan town in
the province of Turin), he is a former
alpine skier, one of the protagonists of
the famous “Valanga Azzurra”, who won
in 1974 the World Cup and the Gold
medal in the slalom at the XII Olympic
Winter Games in 1976 at Innsbruck.
He started his career in the World Cup
in 1972, winning the first two races
in which he participated and became
the youngest winner of a race of FIS
Alpine Ski World Cup men’s when I
was only eighteen. His first victory in
the World Cup was in the giant slalom
in Val d’Isere in 1972, 8th December,
starting with bib Number 45, a feat
never managed to anyone else. He went
up for the last time on the podium in
Cup, in combined, January 15, 1979 in
Crans-Montana; he took part in the XIII
Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid in
1980 and the World Championships in
Schladming in 1982, retired in 1982,
even if he was only twenty-eight. After
retiring he followed skiing as television
sports commentator.
“In 2014 I celebrated 40 years after winning the World Cup Alpine Ski. For this
occasion I received a special gift almost as a joke: a pair of glass skis which my
son Giorgio commissioned to an artist who reproduced my first wooden ski I used
when I was a child. The idea struck me for its originality meanwhile brought me in
the memories of childhood. I believe that the Sport, and in particular the Ski, can
become a new starting point for design projects that will be developed in the context
of international Contemporary Design tendency. I am happy that Paola Colombari, a
friend of mine and a former athlete of the national ski team, is the Art Director of this
Collection which, I am more than sure, will give continuity to the link between “Sport
and Design” with new and interesting future projects” PIERO GROS.
The Ski Lamp dedicated to the Olympic Testimonial has been designed by Alberto
Caramello: “I thought that the five rings were the most immediate signs and I liked
the idea of de-structure them through a series of arches, like the marks left on the
snow by ski.
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Alberto Caramello
Alberto Caramello is a designer from
Turin. He cooperates with Companies
and creative studios, as well as Italians
as well Internationals. From 2009 He is
also Professor at IAAD University in Turin.
Title:
Olympic Circles
Ski Lamp by Alberto Caramello
Material: Glass fusing
thermofomed (technique)
Dimensions: h.100 cm x l.27 x d.10
Limited Edition: 1/40 + 2 AP
Title:
World Champion Glass Ski //
Project. Ski Board by Chiara
Ferraris - Giorgio Gros
Dimensions: h.100 cm x l.16 x d.10
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Material: Glass fusing
thermofomed (technique)
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Year: 2014
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Karim Rashid
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“Shattered ice, chatter,
faceted ice, a cut gem, cant,
as one cuts the crust are
carves the snow” by Karim.
Karim Rashid, one of the most prolific
designers of his generation. Over 3000
designs in production, over 300 awards
and working in over 40 countries attest
to Karim’s legend of design. His award
winning designs include luxury goods
for Christofle, Veuve Clicquot, and
Alessi, democratic products for Umbra,
Bobble, and 3M, furniture for Bonaldo
and Vondom, lighting for Artemide and
Fabbian, high tech products for Asus and
Samsung, surface design for Marburg
and Abet Laminati, brand identity
for Citibank and Sony Ericsson and
packaging for Method, Paris Baguette,
Kenzo and Hugo Boss. Karim’s touch
expands beyond product to interiors such
as the Morimoto restaurant, Philadelphia;
Semiramis hotel, Athens; nhow hotel,
Berlin; Universita Metro Station, Naples
as well as exhibition design for Deutsche
Bank and Audi. Karim has recently been
selected to design several real estate
developments in New York City for HAP
Investments, a New York City based
International investment group. Karim’s
work is featured in 20 permanent
collections and he exhibits art in galleries
worldwide. Karim is a perennial winner of
the Red Dot award, Chicago Athenaeum
Good Design award, I.D. Magazine Annual
Design Review, IDSA Industrial Design
Excellence award. He holds Honorary
Doctorates from the OCAD, Toronto
and Corcoran College of Art & Design,
Washington. Karim has been featured
in magazines and books including Time,
Vogue, Esquire, GQ, Wallpaper, and
countless more. In his spare time Karim’s
pluralism flirts with art, fashion, and
music and is determined to creatively
touch every aspect of our physical and
virtual landscape.
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Title:
Ski Lamp K POINT - Ski Board K
POINT
Author: Karim Rashid
Material: Glass fusing
thermofomed (technique) and resin
for ski bindings
Dimensions: Ski Lamp h. 100 cm x
l. 27 x d. 16 – Ski Board h. 100
cm x l. 16 cm x d. 12 cm
Limited Edition: 1/40 + 2 AP
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Sergio J. Matos
More than function the Design has
the power of history, memory, and
affective ties. Is this perception-lined
with the essence of brazilianess-that
the designer from Mato Grosso, Sergio
Matos, supplies and nourishes the
development of products of furniture
and decoration.
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Pirarucu: The giant of the Amazonian waters.
The graphics repeats the pattern of curvy dash. Displays brown tone - illuminated
by the contrast of the contours in red - and extends throughout the base of the ski
Pirarucu boards. The Inspiration catched for the designer Sergio Matos refers to
Pirarucu, the biggest fish that inhabits the fresh waters of Brazil.
Buriti: The tree of life.
Scarlet red spreads in three-dimensional design of the ski Buriti boards. It has
the tone inspired by the tropics, the fruit of buriti, one of the biggest palms of the
Amazon - Brazil. The rivers, flooded forests and streams are the perfect place for this
kind of palm that reaches up to 35 meters high and is called by the natives Tapuia
the “tree of life”.
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Title:
Esquis Pirarucu (Ski Lamp)
Esquis Buriti (Ski Board)
Author: Sergio J. Matos
Material: Glass fusing
thermofomed (technique) and resin
for ski bindings
Dimensions: Ski Lamp h. 100 cm x
l. 27 x d. 16 – Ski Board h. 100
cm x l. 16 cm x d. 12 cm
Limited Edition: 1/40 + 2 AP
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Rodrigo Almeida
I was born in Sao Paulo, the largest city
in Brazil, where people from all over the
world live and form an enormous cultural
and sub-cultural network. In this scenario,
we can find the Indian culture, the African
culture, the Portuguese and Hispanic
cultures and influences from other parts of
Asia and Europe. I believe we are a young
culture and in the mood for inventions.
Also, I think that in Brazil we do not
have a good industrial or post-industrial
decorative culture; what one can find is
innumerous aspects that come directly
from craftsmanship which very often does
not show the point of view of the formal
realization of the object.
I think it is necessary to look and feel the
spirit of these objects and the aesthetic
atmosphere that surrounds them.
A rope with knots, poetic representation of how we are connected with
other people, with the sport, with the object.
The rope that holds us back, while life passes in speed. In Greek mythology, the
Parcas were the three sisters who decided the fate of the Gods is that of human
beings. The three women were responsible for the production, the weaving and the
shaping of the human lives. Nodes are like different roads and new paths which
continuously prove our capabilities. Life is movement and sport is one of the most
beautiful forms of representation of our existence.
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Title:
Nodi Parcas (Ski Lamp) Corda
Parcas (Ski Board)
Author: Rodrigo Almeida
Material: Glass fusing
thermofomed (technique) and resin
for ski bindings
Dimensions: Ski Lamp h. 100 cm x
l. 27 x d. 16 cm – Ski Board h.
100 cm x l. 16 cm x d. 12 cm
Limited Edition: 1/40 + 2 AP
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Antonio Cagianelli
Antonio Cagianelli lives and works
between Paris and Milan. He started
in Paris in ‘89 his career as an artistdesigner with an imprint dreamlike and
surrealist outside the conventional paths
of the production design. The famous
critic ‘art Pierre Restany described him as
fact “a poet who has chosen to express
themselves in three dimensions”. He
collaborated since 1989 with major
galleries including the Galleria Clara
Scremini Paris and the Gallery Paola
Colombari Milan who would become his
first address. His work is represented
in major public and private collections
such as the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in
Paris and the Musée des Art Dècoratifs
in Montreal. He has worked with
international brands such as Alessi,
Daum, Lampe Berger, Abet.
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Phaeton.
The concept of “challenge”, typical of sports performance, is the basis of the
concept “Phaeton” Ski, in which the myth of Phaeton who takes possession of the
chariot of the Sun God, and then loses control setting fire to heaven and earth
and precipitating with hair on fire on the Earth, it is a symbol of failure and futility
of actions and human ambitions. The beauty myth that refers Cagianelli which
results in ‘unpublished graphic pattern in which the sky and fire come together, is a
counterpoint to the pessimism about the fate of’ man which is the basic concept of
the Cagianelli’s metaphoriacal creations.
Fire walk with me.
The concept of “Power and Energy” key ingredient for any sport performance is the basis
of the flaming Lamp-Ski. The theme of the flame is a symbol of the creative landscape
of polymorphic Cagianelli, archaic symbol of energy and creative force as well as in the
eponymous film of Lynch, a metaphor of destruction and annihilation. And the theme of
the ambiguity of the opposing, positive and negative intertwine and merge.
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Title:
Fire Walk With Me (Ski Lamp)
Fetonte (Ski Board)
Author: Antonio Cagianelli
Material: Glass fusing
thermofomed (technique) and resin
for ski bindings
Dimensions: Ski Lamp h. 100 cm x
l. 27 x d. 16 - Ski Board h. 100
cm x l. 16 cm x d. 12 cm
Limited Edition: 1/40 + 2 AP
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