Gufram Hand domestic sculpture and seat

Mano by Gufram is not just an object: it is a gesture transformed into sculpture, an idea that becomes presence. Designed in 2000 by Cinzia Ruggeri, this open hand - proudly erect or reclining like a surreal creature - challenges the definition of furniture. It is both a provocation and a caress, a signal to be interpreted, a threshold between art and design. Upholstered in black velvet, Mano blends tactile elegance and symbolic strength. It is a piece that imposes itself in space like an enigma to be deciphered: is it a greeting? An alt? A tentacled creature? Each position changes its meaning, each glance reinvents it. This is where Cinzia Ruggeri's visionary poetics lives: in that fertile ambiguity where the functional meets the irrational, where the object is charged with meaning. Hand does not furnish: it dialogues. It does not adapt: it imposes itself. It is a contemporary classic that redefines the very idea of domestic sculpture, bringing art into the everyday without ever ceasing to question the beholder.

Hand of Gufram. It is not a chair. It is a sign.

• Designer: Cinzia Ruggeri
• Material: polyurethane foam

Dimensions: 

• Height: 1900 mm 
• Width: 135 mm 
• Depth: 310 mm 
• Net weight: 60 kg