Andrea Felice reveals Rovi at the London Design Festival
London furniture designer and maker Andrea Felice has created the Rovi Cabinet for this years London Design Festival.
Rovi is a very minimal and elegant aluminum cabinet. Branches weave through the cabinet’s structure – in doing so become one with it. But Rovi’s has thorns – making the handles seem almost inaccessible.
This playfully reverses our relationship with a piece of fine furniture. You are at risk - rather than having to be careful of how you handle or open a more delicate piece of furniture.
The unit is constructed of black pigmented high density fiberboard, which has been faced with 3mm aluminum sheet. The doors of the unit are mitred so that they seamlessly fit.
The original handles branches were hand carved by Andrea from Sycamore, with Holy wood thorns. These were then used to construct two part silicon molds from which the handles have been cast using a polyester resin.
Designed and Manufacture in August 2010 by Andrea Felice. All work conducted in house, in their London workshop.
Rovi is 1190mm x 740mm x 450mm in size.
Limited production run of 9.
Rovi means bramble or thorny bush in Italian.
