Snake

Design: Isao Hosoe with Ann Marinelli

Production: Sacea, Italy, 1985

Awards and recognitions: Selected for the Compasso D’Oro exhibition, 1987, Selected for Office Design Orgatecnik. 1988

The articulated free-standing wall called “Snake” is the answer to the growing demands for flexibility in a world of rigid, pre-established, geometrical forms. The concept developed in this project is the result of a long research for the maximum degree of freedom, and movement while still conserving its typical identity.

Snake allies its mutable curves to the straight lines and sharp corners of our habitat, curves that contains and distinguish, confine and enclose. In its outstandingly original way, no environment or space is barred to snake, so easily can it create temporary work areas even in the most complex multi-functional places