Driade Dresser Red/Multicoloured/Black Wood. Dimensions: L 246 x Depth
53 x H 200 cm. „With Ziqqurat sideboards, Driade Lab offers a fresh look at
the contemporary decorative arts … These sideboards with their incredible
colourful decoration straddle the border between art and design. They are made
in Italy from digitally printed high-end laminate panels. The very high
definition printing gives an illusion of breathtaking depth. These furniture
items are true paintings on which the Driade Lab designers give free rein to
their creativity. As part of the optical art movement, this extraordinarily
playful geometric design gives the impression of movement and vibration. It
offers an asymmetrical collage of broad coloured stripes. The repetitive,
dynamic pattern includes random intermissions. It plays with the use of breaks,
offsets and continuity. The sideboard thus becomes a rhythmic surface of events,
movement and depth. This precision and rigour in the lines evokes the work of
artist Daniel Buren with his "striped interventions“, very popular in the 70s.
Completely invisible, the handles blend into the decoration like chameleons! The
handles take the form of thin strips of wood, painted in the same colour as the
stripes. Arranged along the stripes, they are perfectly aligned with the
pattern. Ziqqurat revisits the archetypal form of the sideboard: it presents a
pyramidal stack of boxes. The silhouette is particularly graphic. This sideboard
consists of 8 compartments arranged on 3 levels. Upper level: 2 compartments
with doors and removable shelves. Middle level: 2 side compartments (with doors
and removable shelves) + 1 central compartment with 2 small drawers. Lower
level: 2 side compartments (with doors and removable shelves) + 1 central
compartment with 2 large drawers. The interior of the compartments is lacquered
in black. The legs are in black lacquered MDF."
