IT’S ALL IN THE DETAIL

 

 

When it comes to the success of a design, it is often the smallest things that matter the most. Great designers understand this.

 

Designers such as Italian visionary Gianfranco Frattini, who knew that the harmony of sculptural beauty and functional excellence demands the most precise engineering. Or his Finnish counterpart, Paavo Tynell, whose devotion to detail elevated the metalsmith’s craft into an art form. Louis Weisdorf, master of the intricate, the multi-layered and the multi-functional, understood it. So did his fellow Dane, Illum Wikkelsø, whose standards of material comfort and formal elegance in furniture demands the most extraordinary hand-crafting skills to achieve.

 

Today, one finds this obsessive quality in the work of studios such as GamFratesi, whose thoughtful and focused eye for detail has the power to transform even the most everyday objects into something truly remarkable.

 

This fall, GUBI pays tribute to those rare and radical designers who made the biggest impact – by getting every detail right. has context menu