ANDY'S CACTUS

The collaboration between GUFRAM and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts continues with the arrival of three new limited edition versions of ANDY’S CACTUS®, in orange, green, and white. Following the presentation of the first limited edition in 2022, the collection is enriched with further interpretations that amplify the encounter between radical design and pop imagery.

Created in 1972 by Guido Drocco and Franco Mello, CACTUS® is much more than a coat rack: it is a domestic sculpture that has transformed a functional object into an aesthetic icon, irreverent and timeless, deliberately breaking with the bourgeois conventions of modern furniture and replacing rationality with irony, function with concept. The new limited edition of ANDY’S CACTUS®, 99 pieces for each variant, renews the dialogue between GUFRAM's provocative spirit and the irreverent aesthetic that inspired the object since its creation.

A combination that celebrates creative freedom, unconventional thinking, and the desire to challenge the rules of traditional design. The three new colors, orange, green, and white, are not mere decorative variations, but visual references to the vocabulary of Warholian pop art, which amplify the expressive force of CACTUS® and reinforce its iconic value.

Guido Drocco was born in San Benedetto Belbo, Cuneo, Italy on September 19, 1942. He graduated in Architecture at the Polytechnic of Turin (Politecnico di Torino). He performs professional work in the field of Architecture and Industrial Design and is active in Turin. Since 1996 he has been a lecturer in Architectural Design at the Faculty of Architecture at the Polytechnic of Turin. Franco Mello was born in Genoa in 1945. He lives and works in Turin and Spineto Scrivia. Mello works in design, packaging, graphic design, publishing and art. He has edited books on art and designed catalogues and posters for numerous artists from Arte Povera to the Transavantgarde, including Piero Manzoni, Giulio Paolini, Giuseppe Penone, Alberto Burri, Yves Klein, Bridget Riley and Pinot Gallizio. Among other products, in 1972 they designed together the CACTUS® for Gufram.

L 70, D 70, H 85.5 cm; 22 Kg