DNA Outdoor | By Leonardo Rossano,Debora Mansur
DNA Out: the all-steel version of the bench that has become an iconic piece of the True collection, designed by Leonardo Rossano and Debora Mansur.
The lightness of the steel sheet and the absence of joints on the seat embrace the sense of spatial continuity of this product, which is much more than a bench: an object in space. Like the indoor version, Dna Out is also based on the potentially infinite repetition of a single modular element. Available in different colors and finishes, it is suitable for furnishing a variety of spaces, not only outdoors.
Appearing to disappear.
The True Outdoor collection not only immerses itself in nature, it blends into it.
Objects designed to be experienced in open spaces are transformed into camouflaged bodies, where function overtakes trends and aesthetics become totally integrated with the place.
Leonardo Rossano & Debora Mansur
Debora Mansur
Degree in Architecture and Urbanism at PUC- MG/Brazil and Master in Interior Design in Florence at FIDI - Florence Institute of Design International. She's been working for ten years in the Architecture segment mostly focused on Interior Design for residential and commercial, furniture design, projects on spaces optimization and reorganization, offices layout, residences, stores; development of architectural projects for corporate companies, offices, hospitals, hotels; urban landscape and residential spaces design; development of pieces of art, paintings, and photographs to compose places.
Working in Belo Horizonte, Sao Paulo, Milan, and Florence she has started a partnership with the Italian architect Leonardo Rossano designer of furniture and product designs.
Now, based in Belo Horizonte has just joined the "FATTO da DUE" office where she works with a Brazilian engineer partner aiming to bring to projects the classical Italian beauty design and the modern engineering effects.
Leonardo Rossano
An architect and designer, he graduated in ‘91 in Florence, where he resides. In the 90’s he collaborated with architect Claudio Nardi’s studio designing for private residences, public spaces, and boutiques including leading Italian designers like Dolce & Gabbana, G. Ferrè, and Valentino. Since ’98 he is a freelance designer of furniture, furnishing complements, exhibition space and company image communication.
His client list includes Lapalma, RF- Yamakawa, and True Design. For Clerprem, he worked as an art director overseeing the design of seats and components for trains. He was a teaching assistant to Prof. Robert Segoni in the course of “Industrial Design” before becoming a teacher himself lecturing for the Bachelor of Fashion Design in Florence until ‘09.
He currently teaches History of design at IED and Design at the Florence University of Art, for the international masters at Florence Institute of Design International and Polimoda.
He’s an ADI member and won the “Good Design Award” of Chicago Athenaeum for the furniture sector 2013.
Influenced by technologies and nature as an unfailing source of inspiration, I always look for formal, simple, and essential solutions. In my opinion, a balance between aesthetics and functionality is always topical especially when it arises from the confrontation between evolving behaviors and new trends.
True Design
True Manifest
Perhaps this is why a name has never been more appropriate, because it is the project of a family that means business and that, when it deals with issues relating to growth and trust in the new generations, probably does not even talk about it, but simply takes direct action. TRUE is a joint project: the project of a family that has become a company. Founded in 1983 under the name TMA, an interesting geographical acronym of three towns – Treviso, Monselice, and Asiago – particularly active in the furniture industry and, specifically, in the office furniture industry. The founders’ Donatella Brunello and Giuseppe Maniero business and technical experience resulted in a company with international prospects, in which seating for offices as well as theaters and cinemas were its only business. The increasingly high capacities achieved in the upholstered furniture sector and the downturn in the auditorium seating sector led the family to evaluate a new path: the creation of a company that carries forward the expertise acquired over the years, combined with the agility and freshness of a family business which since 2009 also includes the second generation of entrepreneurs, that is young Alessandro, Lorenzo, and Francesco Maniero. By virtue of necessity in that same year TRUE was founded, an Italian company that creates high-quality furnishings and accessories, able to respond to the changing needs of the market in an innovative and lasting manner, providing a service that can always effectively satisfy customer needs with industrial products which can be customized upon request. The spirit of the brand is contained in a single concise and precise adjective that reflects the values on which its collection is based, characterized by authenticity, practicality, and concreteness.
These same adjectives fit perfectly with the coherent and visionary, but also pragmatic, work of the architect Aldo Parisotto, who has been in charge of creative direction since 2014. Parisotto, an internationally renowned architect, co-founder, and owner of Parisotto+Formenton Architetti, immediately joined the TRUE family, with whom he established a direct, spontaneous, sincere, and substantial relationship. TRUE made a strategic choice when it assigned him a role halfway between designer and architect, able to collaborate without limiting himself to imprinting his own distinctive style, but working while taking into consideration the real needs of designers and the public worldwide. At the beginning of the new millennium, workplaces ceased to be places of mere production and became increasingly welcoming and comfortable spaces, where one could stay longer in contexts characterized by the need for emotion even more so than the function of the space itself. Enhancing this aspect by freeing space from the rigid dogmas of the architecture of the past was one of the first challenges that the Art Director faced with regard to the TRUE collections. Each of the company’s creations originates from the passion for the work and the profound sense of responsibility of those who work there, in a family atmosphere in which production increases and is developed. Aware of their role and the essential role of the designers, TRUE’s production is the result of a thorough analysis of the demands of both the market and international production, organized in an open and flexible manner, adopting cutting-edge methods and technologies, focusing on knowledge and training. And, above all, cooperation. In fact, cooperation was a fundamental criterion in the selection of the designers to whom the conception and development of the new TRUE collections are to be entrusted. The designers whose creative talents contribute to further enhancing the TRUE catalog are, therefore, chosen according to the affinity between their ethical and aesthetic approach and that of the company to transform wood, fabric, metals, and leather into furnishing accessories both beautiful and accessible that are exclusively manufactured in Italy. A decade after its inception, TRUE’s objective is to grow continuously in the name of research and innovation and to expand and increasingly stand out on the international level due to the quality of its production and service, competitively consolidating its brand among the most important market segments. Because TRUE focuses on a passion for beautiful and well-performed work for the satisfaction of its customers, offering experience, expertise, capacity, and flexibility, to achieve a dream together, to help make spaces more pleasant and comfortable, with products that are durable both for their taste and for the quality of their materials and workmanship, and that are, therefore, truly sustainable.
