Diotti Italian Traditional Wall System Designs
27 August 2009
“Cogito, ergo sum”
For those who don’t know, that is the Latin version of the famous line by Descartes, “I think, therefore I am,” which is a line that immediately came to mind when I saw this line of wall systems by Diotti A&F called Ergo. Diotti is an Italian Interior Design and Furniture company that is rapidly becoming one of my favorite Internet sources for inspiration for these blogs.
These people think and design and create because they are. Oh, man, are they are! OK, that last one doesn’t make a bit of sense, but they really have left me speechless. The depth and infinite variety of their ideas is truly astonishing. I will have much more to say on this in tomorrow’s blog when I write about their line of modern wall systems, but for now there are the quiet, traditional lines of Ergo.
One of the things I thought I might like to do with a woodworking business is to make home theaters, but I wanted them to be home theaters, not simple wall systems, because really now, what does one do with a wall system? A few boxes laced together with some sort of framing—voilà, screw that baby to the wall. I suppose it’s a living, but can we just say, ho hum! Well, that gets me into the subject of today’s blog which is Diotti’s Ergo Wall Sys
tem. I chose this wall system from their traditional side, in part, because of the name, I suppose, in larger part simply because I wanted to write about more conventional furniture if I could find any that was of interest.
I like this one because, although it is traditional, it shows a lot of ideas and thought being expressed. And the other thing that particularly interests me is that Diotti has come up with a large number of variations on this particular idea. In this country, it tends to be “one size fits all,” which it emphatically does not, but it does come in one size and one configuration, so we just have to live with it that way. Not so with Italian design in general and Diotti in particular. I don’t have enough room to show all the available variations of this particular wall system, but I can say that their output interests me no end. To make just one point, they have taken what could have been rather severe drawer fronts and given them a wonderfully subtle and elegant configuration and then “pulled a Mozart” and composed several var
iations on a theme.
Because of my own woodworking abilities, I personally am not particularly big on factory-made wooden furniture, especially in this day and age when so many of the so-called business magnates—AKA morons—are sending everything to China to be made on the cheap, but one sees at once from the pictures (you just have to be a woodworker to know what to look for), that this is a line of furniture made in a factory by people who care very much about the work they are doing. And whenever you find a company that encourages that kind of craftsmanship, well, this is what you get. Or, I guess another way to put that would be to quote Julius Caesar’s famous message after an overwhelming victory: “VENI VIDI VICI”, I came, I saw, I conquered. These people certainly did!
Joseph
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