BRAAS Lamp

A working or dining table built in thick copper pipes. The tabletop in laminated plywood can be substituted by an HPL laminate for external uses.
The table is provided with wheels for simple and efficient arrangements. The price refers to one table.

• Materials: Copper & laminated plywood (or HPL laminate for outdoor model) - available in various colors

• Dimensions: L 180, D 65, H 74

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Monographic book of the Houses series by Studio Ponsi.

Maremma House, Magliano in Toscana, Italy, 2013-2015

The building is set on a hill surrounded by olive trees and vineyards near the ancient village of Pereta, in the Tuscan Maremma countryside. The landscape around it is characterized by gently rolling hills sloping down towards the sea. The view from the house sweeps over Monte Argentario and the islands of the Tuscan archipelago.

The house is laid out as three layers of volumes stretching horizontally along the north-south axis. The linear shape of the three floors echoes the dominating horizontality of the land. The arrangement of the volumes corresponds to the distribution of activity in the house as well as referring to a metaphorical stratification of meanings. 

Andrea Ponsi, Luca Ponsi, Studio Ponsi , Firenze, 2019
30x30 cm, 50 pages,
English

ISBN 978-0464322221

The watercolors by Andrea Ponsi collected in this suggestive "carnet de voyage" through Tuscany are both traditional and innovative; traditional because they are inspired by the representation of the scenery which had its peak in the landscape painting of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, innovative as the atmosphere of the images and the author's accurate descriptions are permeated with a spirit of abstraction of a clear modern character.

Gli acquarelli di Andrea Ponsi raccolti in questo suggestivo carnet de voyage attraverso la Toscana sono allo stesso tempo tradizionali e innovativi. Tradizionali perché ispirati alla rappresentazione del paesaggio che ha avuto il suo apice nel "vedutismo" del XVIII e XIX secolo; innovativi in quanto l'atmosfera delle immagini, accompagnate dalle accurate descrizioni dell'autore, è permeata di uno spirito di astrazione di carattere assolutamente moderno.

Andrea Ponsi, Polistampa Editore - Leonardo libri, Firenze, 2023
English & Italian

ISBN 978-8859623373

Introductions by Pippo Ciorra and Cristiano Toraldo di Francia

Andrea Ponsi, Alinea, Florence, 2001

ISBN 978-8881255054

Many years have passed since architect Andrea Ponsi settled in Florence, and still he feels he does not fully comprehend this mysterious city. The way Florence eludes understanding, however, can be an opportunity--to keep seeking, to keep exploring. Ponsi’s Florence is endlessly suggestive. His tour of the city is one of continually shifting light and perspective, of stunning symmetry and an even more compelling asymmetry, of sudden transitions from bustling streets to the most perfect silence.

While Ponsi does consider such celebrated sites as the Piazza Santa Croce, the Ponte Vecchio, and the Duomo, the book is a decidedly personal view of Florence. The author notes the city’s recurring geometry--the square courtyards, triangular spires, octagonal plaques and pillars--and marvels at a room almost too big to be called a room. He views the city from various terraces and likens the expanse of rising and falling rooftops to ocean waves.Here is Florence as labyrinth, possessing a medieval density that is relieved only by the sudden views of sky framed by its piazzas. Ponsi shows us a six-street intersection and ponders the abundance of acute angles, both indoors and out, in this city of infinite corners.

In Florence, humans and buildings commingle. The author equates haircuts and changes of clothes with fresh coats of paint and re-shingling jobs, and contemplates the way a human hand, feeling its way down a city block, adds to the patina of a stucco wall. Ponsi sees the city itself as a living body, through whose veins its inhabitants course.

This is the way we dream an architect could speak to us, fully communicating his passion. The book’s elegant, concise prose--as well as its balance of the civic with the intensely personal--recalls the Calvino of Marcovaldo and Invisible Cities. The text is accompanied by Ponsi’s own spare but evocative watercolors and sketches, which, like his words, seek to behold rather than pin down. This lyrical tribute is as much an ode to the lost art of contemplation as it is to Florence--a city where every moment is different from every other moment.

Page on University of Virginia Press

Andrea Ponsi, LetteraVentidue Edizioni, 2013
Italiano

ISBN 978-8862420891