
For this week, my favorite experience was the Kartell museum. This was filled with plastic in beautiful shapes and sizes that I’d never seen before. I really enjoyed getting a chance to see plastic in this way and shaped in a way that heavily influenced to Italian people. It allowed for the simple production of buckets and even something as simple as a chair. In one instance, the guide told of how a child’s chair was created. This was done at first because of the molding that required a certain amount of plastic; however, it was actually a great creation because it allowed parents to give this chair to their children and no longer worry about getting stains or other substances on the chair that would ruin it in the long run since it could easily be washed off. This was an important piece and eventually paved the way to my above sketch of tables with unique and interesting designs created by the husband and wife duo that had an interesting background in chemistry and architecture. These two were design geniuses and paved the way for plastics to be seen as not a cheap solution, but a creative one that would allow Italians to do the jobs they needed and not worry about decaying material or even fragile material with the use of combining plastic and other materials.