Urania: a robot-sculpted chair by contemporary Italian designer Pietro Franceschini

Urania is the latest work by Pietro Franceschini, presented during the Milan Design Week 2021 exclusively for Galerie Philia. This marble piece demonstrates experimentation within his research on sculptural furniture and neotenic design. The chair is robot-sculpted in Carrara from a single block of Breccia di Capraia marble and refined by hand. Here for the first time, the pure and rigorous geometry of Pietro’s work gets deformed and speaks a more organic language.

Getting to know Pietro Franceschini

Pietro Franceschini is an architect and designer based in New York and Florence. He was educated in Italy, Portugal and United States. After receiving his B.Arch cum laude from Università degli Studi di Firenze and his M.S.Arch with 1st class honour from Pratt Institute, he collaborated among others with Leeser Architecture in Brooklyn, Claudio Nardi in Florence, Laisné Roussel in Paris and Carlo Ratti Associati in New York. His latest project - PF|Studio - was born in 2020 as an interior and collectible design practice at the intersection between digital and physical.