KRISTAL design DANTE BONUCCELLI

of furniture, the glass cabinet, with contemporary technology, illustrating the concept that

“apparent simplicity is great complexity”. It features a rigid, rugged framework, built by joining 20

aluminium sections, based on the idea of lightness, along with the graphic feature of the uprights

which allow for extreme compositional freedom.

Kristal is based on two key concepts:

sliding – it revolutionizes the opening system, shifting the slide to the bottom, and making the

cabinet ultra light and ethereal;

lightness – the rythmn marked by the vertical uprights gives compositional freedom to the

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