The stool borns with the aim of creating a piece of furniture made of a new bio-composite developed by the designer, known as Fiberflax.This material is made of flax and wool felt, both local materials from the Sardinian craft tradition.The process used for the making of the stool's seat is a manufacturing technique used in the aerospace industry, known as VARTM(Vacuum Assisted Resin Transfer Molding)for the making of high-performance composites.The stool, by creating a continuum between tradition and modernity, highlights how they can coexist in harmony to produce original solutions.
Born in London, Francesco Frulio has settled himself in Milan to study Product Design at the Politecnico di Milano. He is particularly interested in the fusion between design and other seemingly unrelated productive fields to create new forms of hybridization, but also to the reinterpretation of traditional objects in modern and contemporary ways. Curious and inquisitive by nature, he always tries to create a story behind every product as he see objects as a communication bridge between people, helping them creating a relation. He is particularly attentive to environmental issues related to the design, as every decision made during a project on paper, will have repercussions on the real world and real people. For this, central to his design philosophy is the careful consideration of the life cycle of the product and its impact in environmental terms.