Perin & Topan: a Best of Show in Chicago, then back to work

Chicago noticed them before the general public did: at the NeoCon fair — America's great office-design tribunal — Perin & Topan took a Best of Show with the Pamplona chair and the Forma executive programme. Then, in the least American move imaginable, they went quietly back to the drawing board. Gianantonio Perin and Giorgio Topan, architects from Italy's Veneto in practice since 1991, have kept a simple creed: unite mass production, aesthetic value and function.

The proof ships in crates: executive lines Digit, Forma, Ono and Spike for Frezza, the New Loop desk for IVM, coherent systems for Bralco — all brands La Mercanti supplies to U.S. projects. An award juried in Chicago, furniture that still answers to it.