Driade Celebrates 50 Years Of Playfulness With A Collection Thats Out Of This World
In 1968, its three founders, siblings Enrico and Antonia Astori and Enrico’s wife, Adelaide Acerbi Astori, created Driade based on ‘genius and insanity, design and poetry’, as the current CEO, Giuseppe Di Nuccio explains. Since then, the brand has worked with some of the most imaginative minds in design, from Enzo Mari and Nanda Vigo in the late 1960s to Borek Sipek in the 1980s and 1990s. Driade also gave a young Philippe Starck his first big break in 1984 when it produced the chairs he designed for the Café Costes in Paris. Starck’s pieces are still a celebrated part of the collection today. Many more illustrious names in design have passed through the Driade stables, from Konstantin Grcic and Naoto Fukasawa to David Chipperfield (who served as the company’s artistic director from 2014-16).
This story is from the November 2018 edition of Wallpaper.
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