How to design a handle for a firm of such stature? I started making sketches, but kept them to myself. In the beginning, they were strange ideas, and looking at them, I wondered if I really wanted to produce a handle like that. To tell the truth, no. Maybe the handle does not always have to play the leading role. Maybe it can be understated.
How to design a handle for a firm of such stature? I started making sketches, but kept them to myself. In the beginning, they were strange ideas, and looking at them, I wondered if I really wanted to produce a handle like that. To tell the truth, no. Maybe the handle does not always have to play the leading role. Maybe it can be understated.
MATERIAL Brass
TYPOLOGY New Olivari Product - Round Door Handles
Yes, just a handle – not a flower, a spacecraft or an engine component. The simpler I drew it, the more I liked it. Then I had the idea to puff it up a little, to make it more like a comic strip.
When Mr Olivari asked me, “What do we call it?” I said that it reminded me of the Olivari logo. Antonio said, “Then Logo it is!” — James Irvine
James designed the model Logo in 2006. An iconic product that in its simplicity represents what I call the “Irvine Method”; a universal method made of passion for details, functionality and irony. Reproportioning his design with respect to the new rosette was natural for me: an ethical gesture that looks at the product as a universal object, timeless and unfashionable, just like Olivari’s DNA. — Marialaura Rossiello Irvine