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Nicola Novelletto 2012
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I consider design an exercise in visual economy. For this handle, I gave myself the challenge to reduce the number of elements as much as I could. I eliminated all except for three basic units. Light does the rest.

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  • TYPOLOGYSquare

EUCLIDE, 2012

On this tabula rasa, the conjunction between the cylinder and the parallelepiped comes to the foreground. It is based on a wonderful technique for which I am grateful to Olivari.

— Nicola Novelletto

The two variants of the rose correspond to a dilemma I have faced many a time: should it be square because it is fixed to the door, or should it be round because the lever revolves around an axis?
— Nicola Novelletto

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