From the wing of a biplane a design table
The small Emilia-based workshop Arteinmotion salvages parts of Boeing, Airbus and vintage aircraft to create furnishing objects. Among tables, desks, bookcases
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'What you see here is all sold'. If in general the Salone del Mobile in Milan is not about orders but rather about contacts, Marco Panciroli's experience is the opposite. In fact, the entire collection of objects visible on the stand of the small Emilian entrepreneur has already been bought by visitors in the first few days. Unique pieces, in the literal sense, those produced by Arteinmotion, objects recovered from old disused aircraft, then restored and reworked to give life to new forms.
Thus, an engine from a Boeing 747 is transformed into a small bar, the wing of a biplane is reborn in the form of a transparent table, where the wooden rib, rather than the glass resting on it, is the real protagonist. Or a table made out of an Airbus tank, a piece of the nacelle of a Boieng 737 that becomes a piece of furniture to hang on the wall, a propeller blade from a Lockheed Constellation from the 1940s, one of the first aircraft to connect the two sides of the Atlantic.
Or a lamp made from the tank of a 1950s fighter jet, the engine of a Boeing 727 that turns into a desk. Objects that can cost between 10 and 50 thousand euros.
"It is a passion that we have been cultivating for some time,' Panciroli explains, 'going abroad to retrieve parts of these objects and then machining them in our workshop in Reggio Emilia, where we do all the machining. Each of these is a unique piece, especially because it is difficult to find the same starting object in several examples'.
A small company, with just five employees, but which has participated in the show for several editions now, reaching customers all over the world.
