Martino Gamper Salt and Pepper Spitz

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—01. Walnut and ash versions.

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Martino Gamper obviously takes pride in reworking everyday items and imbuing them with a sense of humour, amounting to designs that while useful in your daily life, also give the refreshing feeling of breaking convention. Salt and pepper grinders certainly fit squarely into the everyday and ubiquitous categories, and are notably absent from a lot of designer’s offerings. Gamper, however, has produced versions in walnut and ash, making colour coordinating your salt and pepper receptacles very easy.

—Available from Momosan Shop

Recto Verso by Martino Gamper

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—01. Stackable.
—02. Bentwood construction.

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Martino Gamper’s café chair-inspired design is perfectly basic. Stackable and stripped of any superfluous details, the Recto Verso is the ideal seating option for any home – used around a table or kept in the corner, one on top of another, ready for when they are needed. 

—Available from Momosan Shop

Martino Gamper In Vino Veritas Three Glass Coasters

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—01. Small size.
—02. Gold.

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Developed for the Total Trattoria project, these coaster clusters were designed by London-based artist Martino Gamper. Available in four colours and two sizes, they are an interesting take on a very simple product. Gamper breathes new life into an often mundane object, creating something useful and visually unique.

—Available at Everyday Needs

Turnaround Issue Shelves by Martino Gamper

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—01. Turnaround Issue 01.
—02. Turnaround Issue 02.

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"Martino Gamper is an Italian, London based furniture designer who nurtures an interest in found and unwanted objects. Reworking furniture that he finds in skips and on the streets, he has created an eclectic and mismatched family of objects."

These shelves are made from reclaimed spindles and Pacific Rimu.

—Available at Everyday Needs

Mono.Kultur #32 / Martino Gamper: All Channels Personal

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—01. Issue # 32.
—02. 100 Chairs in 100 Days.

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I'm a big admirer of Martino Gamper's work, so I was pleased to discover that the latest issue of Mono.Kultur Magazine features an interview with the designer, in which he discusses why the chair is the ultimate challenge, and what cooking has in common with design. The structure of the magazine itself has been made using 3 different sized booklets that have been manually assembled together to create a unique and interesting object.

—Mono.Kultur #32

Martino Gamper

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—01. 100 Chairs.
—02. The Arnold Circus Stool.

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Martino Gamper is a furniture designer responsible for several pieces I had seen, without ever knowing the source of their design and creation. Luckily those threads were recently pulled together and I can now consider myself an admirer of his work. Two of my favourite collections of his are the 100 Chairs project; in which he designed and produced 100 different chairs over a period of 100 days, using parts from found and discarded old chairs, and the Arnold Circus Stool; which was designed to be used at the Arnold Circus venue in Shoreditch East London, for either seating or storage. Made out of rotation molded plastic in several colours, the stool is currently available for purchase at a very reasonable price, while the 100 Chairs project has been collected in book form, and can be ordered from Dent-De-Leone.

—Martino Gamper
—Dent-De-Leone

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