Italian designer Ferruccio Laviani turned a classical oak cabinet into a digital-era icon with Good Vibrations (2013) for Fratelli Boffi. Carved with CNC milling to mimic a frozen video “glitch,” the piece warps baroque ornament into ripples and pixelated breaks—part sculpture, part storage. One edition now sits in Paris at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, underscoring its status as contemporary design history. fratelliboffi.it
Laviani later extended the idea across related works (including sideboards and low units) and explored kindred territory with Gothik-A, a neo-gothic “wooden web” encasing a glass vitrine—another mash-up of heritage carpentry and digital-age distortion. If you love conversation pieces that read as both classic and subversive, these are it. fratelliboffi.it
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