Martino Gamper
Course Tutor design products, furniture designer
Martino Gamper has an abiding interest in
the psycho-social aspects of furniture design.
In particular, he has a love of corners and
the multiple emotions provoked by the
single right angled boundary.
Alongdside this concern with underused
spaces, Gamper also nurtures an interest
in unwanted objects. Reworking furniture
that has been dumped on the streets, he has
created a mismatched family of objects.
Some are beatiful and some pathetic, but all
of it, even the most abject of pieces, has a
spring in its step, a euphoria in spired by
the escape of destiny.
Behind each of Gamper’s pieces, there is
a story, one that involves materials,
techniques, people and places.
The finished product is a token of all that.
It is the lovely looking thing that sits in the
brief interlude between making and using.