The board, by a three-year period or so, has burst into my creative activity: it is imposed because of its versatility, the easy availability as material reuse, for its hidden qualities of strength, warmth and softness.
I learned quickly enough to know it, to work it to obtain objects from the most unthinkable foggie: we know it as flat material, it is therefore unusual, almost astonishing, to find three-dimensional cardboard objects in our hands.
I have always asked the material for something more every time: before becoming a round object without showing those terrible steps formed by the overlapping of several shaped sheets; then to offer me the possibility of a movement, most of the time through a hinge made in the material itself; therefore to want to combine with other waste materials, such as leftovers of precious woods, my previous creative material, or scraps of leather ...
SWITCHA is a bit like the culmination of this evolution: it is made up of a round cardboard base covered on both sides with solid Italian walnut panels; it has a lampshade made entirely of cardboard, a half-cylinder without support structures, with a uniform surface, without “pixelation”; it has a movement entirely in cardboard, by raising the lampshade it turns on, lowering it turns it off ...
SWITCHA, pronounced switch in English combined with the final A, "svicia", is a name with a double meaning: it tells us that the lamp itself is a switch, in fact you can't find it along the electric cable, and that is why it is "smart", the translation of "svicia" from Piedmontese.