At the beginning of February 2024, there was a little sneak peak with prototypes and teasers at VooSpace, two months later they took their debut collection to the Salone del Mobile in Milan, and now they are exhibiting their furniture and contemporary objects in their own showroom in the former Cee Cee office: With alternating bursts of nostalgia and joy, we fell in love with Bottone‘s pacchetto completo during the opening and are delighted that the two founders and brothers Michele and Daniele Luciano Ferrazzano are once again bringing lots of passion (and sounds!) to the space. Having grown up in Stuttgart with Italian parents, the influences of both cultures are combined in the label: Italian postmodernism and Bauhaus, moments of pop culture and the precision of craftsmanship are closely interwoven – resulting in eight objects for the first collection that are not only expressive and contemporary in form and color, but also have a lot to offer in terms of sound. Daniele and Michele have been making music themselves for years, so it was clear to them from the outset that they wanted to create their own sounds for their joint label.
You can listen to the results on their website, where the individual objects are not accompanied by texts but by composed pieces of music. And anyone who listens to them will quickly appreciate the omission of the textual level, because nothing could portray the pieces of furniture and their character more faithfully and beautifully than the music of the founders themselves. Sometimes they want to be loud, sometimes fun, sometimes restrained in their wholeness without being less impressive. My body resonates in an S-shape while listening to the “S-Tisch” track, while listening to the “Zooomrug” makes me feel like a little beetle slowly crawling through the interwoven individual parts and enjoying them more and more by time. How nice it can be to simply listen to a piece of furniture.
Text: Robyn Steffen / Photos: Artur De Menezes, Julia Sang Nguyen & Robyn Steffen
Bottone Showroom, Leipziger Str.66, 10117 Berlin–Mitte; map
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