Opinion Ciatti Uptown Bookshelf

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UPTOWN BOOKSHELF

UPTOWN

Lapo Ciatti / 2008

A sculptural look and a gritty style for Uptown, the library system designed by Lapo Ciatti and inspired by the urban landscapes of the great modern cities.

Essential lines and geometric shapes, Uptown is like a skyscraper in a big metropolis. Available in 4 heights, it offers flexibility with one limit only: creativity!

The individual modulescan be moved, overlapped or tilted, 4 elements to obtain various combinations of shapes. These vertical containers are made of MDF and their look gives some fresh air to all types of environments, from the young to austere ones; living rooms and bedrooms, or in the bathroom, thanks to its contained depth that makes it a suitable solution for the most complicated spaces, such as corridors or entrances.

DESIGNER

LAPO CIATTI

Born in Florence in 1980, Lapo Ciatti studied Industrial Design first at IED and then at the Domus Academy in Milan, before starting to work in one of the most prestigious architecture studios with offices in Florence, Milan and London. Determined to set up his own business before entering the family firm, he trained abroad, an experience that allowed him to shape a polyhedric vision, open to contamination and a clear ability to grasp future trends.

Having returned to Italy in 2006, Lapo Ciatti enters the family business. After years of silently observing his mother’s entrepreneurial skills, his studies and work in the field where he had come into contact with an international scenario he blends, full of youthful energy, into the group as though he had been born in it.

What he establishes with Bruno Rainaldi is an entrepreneurial, artistic and personal pact that will strongly influence his early works. In 2008, they found Opinion Ciatti, a company that brings together, merging them into a single and unique reality, the family business’s three different “souls”: CCR, Ciatti a Tavola and Facebox. Opinion Ciatti becomes their (shared) expression of a specific understanding of the world of design as a field for experimentation, a laboratory of shapes. In 2009, the 5blocks container system he designs is chosen for the ADI Design Index. He has been CEO and Art Director of Opinion Ciatti since 2011.

Deeply bound to his native Tuscany, he has turned his love for his land into a privileged source of inspiration for the productions by Opinion Ciatti. These are the origins of the collections #FollowYourRoots, a trip in time searching for one’s roots to give meaning to what we are and what we breathe today. The unification of past and present, the hashtag of communication 2.0, facing the roots to be discovered, the fil rouge that joins the suggestions for living in the third millennium.

Curious, thoughtful, careful, attentive to the slightest detail, in his most recent years his attention has turned towards the search for innovative luxury contract solutions. In 2015, with Maurizio Galante and Tal Lancman he designed the common areas and the Suite of OFF Paris Seine, the first floating hotel on the Seine.