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"Do not rock yourself, sit together!" - who has never heard these words from a child?
Almost no one, because everyone's life, at least of us Western, has been conditioned by everyday objects, one of the most common: the chair.
'Obligatory passage' by many designers and architects, from Mies van der Rohe to Le Courbusier, for the famous Thonet session, which with its historic industrial production model 214 has entered homes around the world.
The pursuit of Carla Ptolemy, part of what has always been the imaginary of the sessions.
In fact, the artist, through the teachings of his friend and master Giorgio De Chirico, and with the metaphysics of fantasy reinvents an object of daily use to make him the subject of his art through mediation and reflection, Carla from the late nineties You have earned the epithet of lady of the chairs by no chance.
Carla Tolomeo was born in Pinerolo and began painting in Rome where she moved with her family; Alternate regular studies and painting, encouraged by Masters such as Guttuso, Gentilini, Attardi, Pirandello and De Chirico, who had noticed his talent, to which Ptolemy owes much of his formation and artistic growth. He began to be known and appreciated in Europe with the invitation to the D'après international exhibition in Lugano in 1971. From that year he exhibited his works between Geneva, Vienna, Zurich, New York, London, Paris and Italy , As in Milan, at Palazzo Reale, or at Mantua at Casa del Mantegna.
Since 1997 she has become the Lady of the Chairs. The Chairs-sculpture are immediately reviewed by the most important art and furniture magazines of the world and subject to attention, quotation and collecting. Currently Carla Tolomeo lives and works in Milan, in addition to being a designer and painter, she is also a sculptor, ceramist, engraver, writer. For her everything is transformation and nothing exists that she is not distilled in dream dream consciousness then materialized beyond the illusory veil of Maya.
Precious stones, Indian fabrics, lilac, froissé velvets and sequins create the exotic forms of the chairs - sculpture of the artist who, while using the object, the most classic and most named, ie the chair in its traditional structure, overthrows it The features to impress and give the spectator a collection of sensations and colors that reinvent and conceal the everyday element and custom to make the fantastic trophy chairs that can stimulate movement and fantasy.
The decorative elements themselves are not purely ornamental but merge with the material material of the sculptures until they become an integral part of the work, which is an invitation to travel and to the suggestion of distant and enchanted worlds.
In the showroom of TheInteriorDesign.it you will find a precious sofa of Carla Tolomeo, a tribute to Andy Wharol that will surprise you for elegance and uniqueness.
Almost no one, because everyone's life, at least of us Western, has been conditioned by everyday objects, one of the most common: the chair.
'Obligatory passage' by many designers and architects, from Mies van der Rohe to Le Courbusier, for the famous Thonet session, which with its historic industrial production model 214 has entered homes around the world.
The pursuit of Carla Ptolemy, part of what has always been the imaginary of the sessions.
In fact, the artist, through the teachings of his friend and master Giorgio De Chirico, and with the metaphysics of fantasy reinvents an object of daily use to make him the subject of his art through mediation and reflection, Carla from the late nineties You have earned the epithet of lady of the chairs by no chance.
Carla Tolomeo was born in Pinerolo and began painting in Rome where she moved with her family; Alternate regular studies and painting, encouraged by Masters such as Guttuso, Gentilini, Attardi, Pirandello and De Chirico, who had noticed his talent, to which Ptolemy owes much of his formation and artistic growth. He began to be known and appreciated in Europe with the invitation to the D'après international exhibition in Lugano in 1971. From that year he exhibited his works between Geneva, Vienna, Zurich, New York, London, Paris and Italy , As in Milan, at Palazzo Reale, or at Mantua at Casa del Mantegna.
Since 1997 she has become the Lady of the Chairs. The Chairs-sculpture are immediately reviewed by the most important art and furniture magazines of the world and subject to attention, quotation and collecting. Currently Carla Tolomeo lives and works in Milan, in addition to being a designer and painter, she is also a sculptor, ceramist, engraver, writer. For her everything is transformation and nothing exists that she is not distilled in dream dream consciousness then materialized beyond the illusory veil of Maya.
Precious stones, Indian fabrics, lilac, froissé velvets and sequins create the exotic forms of the chairs - sculpture of the artist who, while using the object, the most classic and most named, ie the chair in its traditional structure, overthrows it The features to impress and give the spectator a collection of sensations and colors that reinvent and conceal the everyday element and custom to make the fantastic trophy chairs that can stimulate movement and fantasy.
The decorative elements themselves are not purely ornamental but merge with the material material of the sculptures until they become an integral part of the work, which is an invitation to travel and to the suggestion of distant and enchanted worlds.
In the showroom of TheInteriorDesign.it you will find a precious sofa of Carla Tolomeo, a tribute to Andy Wharol that will surprise you for elegance and uniqueness.
