The “special guest" at the Flavio LucchiniArt Museum on the occasion of the Super Design Show 2022, is Carla Tolomeo, an anomalous artist in the Italian creative scene, who made her debut as a painter, dedicating herself since 1997 to sculpture-chairs that soon become the absolute protagonists of her work, presented on this occasion, in a significant selection of extraordinary aesthetic impact with a personal exhibition: “Never rest on my laurels”.
Produced by Formitalia, Carla Tolomeo's chairs, sofas, chaise-longues and footstols are the result of an original and coherent creative process. The first step consists in the search for seating structures from different eras, places and styles, preserved in whole or in part in the subsequent re-interpretation of the artist, who intervenes with new upholstery - of velvet and silk, also object of research when not exclusive creations - as well as with admirable and accurate elaborations, completely handmade: fabric applications, embroideries, trimmings borders, flashes of sequins. The result are unique pieces: objects of use become art "subjects”.
The inspiration sphere is a technicolor kaleidoscope that includes flora and fauna: from palm trees to roses in maxi size, to turtles, parrots, to the fish and underwater world, with an allusive, constant reference to Jorge Luis Borges and his magical realism.

Chaise-longue "Cool"

Footstool "Totemmoonds"

Armchair "Night and Day"