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Camilo Pardo, Michael Chetcuti Collaborate on Aluminum Furniture LineFord GT designer Camilo Pardo and industrial designer Michael Chetcuti have teamed up on another groundbreaking work of industrial sculpture.
Their all-aluminum chair is the first in a planned line to include a coffee table and sofa.
As part of their groundbreaking artistic collaboration exploring fine design and twenty-first century metal fabrication technologies, the Detroit design duo of Camilo Pardo and Michael Chetcuti have moved into the world of fine furniture design.
Their first effort, a polished aluminum chair weighing some 475 pounds, was unveiled this December at Camilo's one-man show at Detroit's CPOP Gallery.
ne of the few sculptural pieces featured in the show-most of the works are large paintings centered on Camilo's passion for fast cars and beautiful women-the chair drew raves on the show's opening night.
Many gallery patrons even took a seat and posed for snapshots.
Both Chetcuti, an industrial designer and metal fabricator, and Camilo, a multi-talented artist who is perhaps best known as the lead designer on the Ford GT sports car released last year, have expressed a passion for fine furniture design in the Cranbrook-Saarinen tradition.
By bringing Camilo's sense of automotive line and proportion and Chetcuti's fabrication expertise to that tradition, the pair believe they can build a
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