Flow - Bench

Designer:  Dario Antonioni
Benefits:  Special Olympics

Size:  60L x 18D x 18H in
Weight:  55 LBS     
Color:  Bright White / Matte (see color chart for more color options)
Materials:  Powder Coated Aluminum
Use:  Indoor / Outdoor
Includes:  Anti-Theft Security Feet + Authentic Signature Medallion
Made in USA

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Dario Antonioni 

What was your inspiration?

I love my work and that appreciation makes me want to give back. That's simply why we created Botanist. Inspiration for the simple forms came from the notion of a "blank canvas". Maximum surface area while creating a functional, strong, and modular system of nest-able geometrics was the goal. Reducing the objects to minimal needs became a key design driver. This is why there are three elements, a. the canvas, b. the rib, and c. the feet. The rest, is well--up to the designers. 

Why is it important for you to give back?

My older brother Pablo has down syndrome. Throughout my life I've dedicated time as a Special Olympics coach, teacher, and friend to the down syndrome community. The experience has changed my life. Pablo is a reminder to me of our own purity, delicacy, simplicity, and what it takes to nurture true unwavering love. He makes us all special. That is why I have chosen the Special Olympics as my charity of choice.   

Bio

By the age of 10, Dario Antonioni was a bona-fide flight junkie, churning out model airplanes like a man obsessed. While other kids were memorizing baseball statistics, Antonioni was devouring every book about the Wright Brothers he could get his hands on. Even then, Antonioni was amazed not so much by the flight itself--but by the fact that two nobody bicycle mechanics had the effrontery to revolutionize a field so far beyond their area of expertise that they had almost no business being there. 

"They were the kind of innovators who didn't follow a standard path," says Antonioni. "They cleared a totally new path--even if it meant they didn't know where they'd end up, and they were unwilling to allow any barrier to stop them. To me, that's what innovation is about," 

Today, the founder of the Los Angeles design lab Orange22 still takes his cue from those aviators, refusing to abide by the often fiercely guarded distinctions between discipline in design. He calls himself a "maker of things"--a purposefully open-ended description, as Orange22 designs and fabricates both mass-market and limited-edition objects and furniture, brand-defining retail environments, residential interiors and design concepts licensed for mass production. In every case, Antonioni fuses technology, art and design, with the overarching intent to revolutionize the way we live. 

Botanist believes that design can make a difference.
Sales from the "Flow" series benefit the Special Olympics.

Mission

The mission of Special Olympics is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.