Quederna Writing Desk

The honeycomb core structure, covered in White Print laminate, is digitally printed with black squares at 3 cm intervals. A retractable drawer is hidden at the top with a drawer compartment in black scratch-resistant embossed painted wood.

The seventies were years of transition and rethinking, but also years of visionary utopia that revolutionized parameters, thinking, styles and perspectives. Quaderna, with its story, represents the utopia of those years. The radical movement tries to “go beyond the disciplinary aspect of design, that is, to reassemble contradictions on a formal level, to destroy the usual image of the product “1.

The result is a pioneering style that provokes on the one hand and creates stimuli for the modern world on the other. “Radical design” clearly refuted not only the status of design, but the entire social context in which designers worked. A clear critique of the rigid and dogmatic functionalism of academia, against the movement’s willingness to see itself as an emancipatory vision of life and design.