{"data":[{"type":"text","data":{"text":"<p>Working in the heartland of Italy’s furniture industry, Roberto Sironi has developed his own highly distinctive style. With an anthropologist’s eye and an aesthete’s ­touch, he creates furniture that could be seen as pseudo-­ancient sculpture or as ritual artifacts. He revels in the audacious juxtaposition of contradictory elements, be it T-beams and column bases or polished metal and earthy imitation marble, combining them to create stylized, contemporary “ruins”. With his “Fuoco” collection, meanwhile, he has turned fire- or lightning-blackened tree stumps into pedestals, casting them in bronze and marrying them with mirrors to form everyday objects that look dramatically archaic. For Sironi, who also teaches in Milan, the tension between the natural and the artificial is an endless source of inspiration. </p>","format":"html"}}]}