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Javier Lopez 2014
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As a young designer, I introduced myself to the Olivari brothers by proposing a handle so minimal, it almost disappeared, the idea won them over immediately, and they enthusiastically lent their support to develop it.

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LOTUS , 2014

It wasn’t easy. The thin profile of the lever needed to enter into a relationship with the thickness of the rose.

— Click to play: Javier Lopez, Salone del Mobile 2014

By joining the forms and surfaces along the horizontal plane in the most fluid way possible, we succeeded in designing a handle that we could describe as being quasi non-existent. — Javier Lopez

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