Pierre Castignola - Kruk - Aluminium, Plastic, Staal

Copytopia Stool - Burnished blue

Amsterdam based designer Pierre Castignola (France - 1995) graduated Cum Laude from the Design Academy in 2018. He aims to have a conceptual background in his work while focusing on a surprising, intriguing and surrealist outcome. His conceptual focus belongs in the perception of the world, with a strong fascination for semiotics and symbols to lead to a radical and critical design. He sets out to redefine the paradigm of creation and consumption.

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.