Artificial Intelligence for Furniture

What can artificial intelligence do for furniture? Philippe Starck and the Italian family business Kartell are expanding the A.I product family for the Salone del Mobile 2024. The collection has been developed with the help of artificial intelligence; an algorithm is used in the development process to fulfil all the specifications of Kartell and the French designer. The new method has significantly shortened the prototyping and design process up to the market launch. The furniture is injection moulded to a high quality and its generative design offers solutions for material reduction - an important environmental factor for industrial products.

Armchair and console

Following the market launch in 2019, Kartell's A.I. project is now growing to include further products: The collection of coloured plastic furniture will be expanded at the Salone del Mobile 2024 to include the A.I. Console and the A.I. Lounge Armchair. The characteristic organic lines in the design of the product family are decisive for the reduction in materials and thus for the idea of artificial intelligence. Together with the chairs and the stool, the console and the upholstered armchair form a product family made of skeleton-like moulded, hard-wearing plastic.

From tradition into the future

Household items, furniture and lighting: The family company Kartell was founded in Milan in 1950 by the young chemist Giulio Castelli and is still a family business today. Castelli knew how to utilise the then revolutionary new material plastic for everyday objects such as a ski rack, a collection of household items and later also for larger furniture and lamps. 

Numerous pieces from the company's history, such as the brightly coloured K 1340 children's chair by Marco Zanuso and Richard Sapper, are today icons of design history, which have won numerous awards and are part of important international design collections such as that of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The company's museum at the former production site in Noviglio, just outside Milan, is also dedicated to Kartell's eventful history. It was founded in 1999 on the occasion of the company's 50th anniversary and houses a collection of over 8,000 objects, which is constantly being expanded.

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