Superstudio
Superstudio was an architectural firm founded in 1966 in Florence, Italy, by Adolfo Natalini and Cristiano Toraldo di Francia.  The duo was later joined by Gian Piero Frassinelli, Alessandro and Roberto Magris, and Alessandro Poli.  Superstudio was a major part of the Radical architecture and design movement of the late 1960s.  The founders has gone to school at the University of Florence with Archizoom Associati founder Andrea Branzi.  In addition to several famous conceptual architectural works.  Their anti-architectural proposals used grid systems as a way to mediate space.  Superstudio participated in the landmark exhibition, Italy: The New Domestic Landscape, presented at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1972.  In 1970, they created their iconic minimalist furniture collection Quaderna is still in production by Zanotta.  Several other Superstudio designs - Sofo Sofa, Passiflora, and Gherpe - are still produced by Poltronova.

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