Camilo Pardo, Michael Chetcuti Collaborate on Aluminum Furniture Line

Ford 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