Lava lamp 2023 45cm x 20cm x 20cm polypropilene, aluminium, glass, electric component fitted with a Eu plug Born from a fascination towards the material icon of 1960s counterculture, Lava Lamp is reconstructed from its antithesis, the timeless plastic garden table. In Lava Lamp, the archetype of the peace-and-love era is recreated with a precise assemblage of discarded lawn table parts, signature of the designer, as a personal homage to this increasingly uncommon, timestamped symbol. Copytopia is often viewed as the artist’s main body of work. Fascinated by the complexity and symbols surrounding the infamous chair commonly known as monobloc, Castignola employs discarded plastic garden chairs as raw material, which he then cuts and reassembles to constitute a variety of everyday objects. With the use of existing pieces of furniture as part of new ones the artist sets out to question the legitimacy of intellectual property, while simultaneously prompting us to reevaluate our relationship with the objects around us, bringing value back to the ones some might consider disposable. The copytopia stool is created from discarded plastic lawn chair that the designer hunts down and rehabilitate to create new design. Derivative work from his mainly known armchairs, these stools offer a new view toward this common object that we all know, emerging from a bizarre assemblage to end up with a functional object for a household. A piece of curiosity abstractly shaped, chaotic and organic while using a mass-produced artefact.