The workshop Furniture Remade was promoted by ESAD and coordinated by the Italian architect Paolo Deganello. Open to ESAD’s students, within the degrees of Interiors Design and Product Design, the workshop focused on the reuse and refurbishing of old furniture. It happened in 2013 between April 15 and 19 at Fábrica de Santo Thyrso.

Objects that were in the end of their lifecycle were rethought and upgraded through a projectual strategy based on the idea of remade. The objective was to get the maximum aesthetical and functional quality of the products, using as less material and human resources as possible, thus granting a low cost that would validate and justify this intervention.

This is one of the three workshops integrated in the module The Reinvented Object, with the curatorship of Maria Milano. It was hosted during the preparing process of the Portuguese participation at the Milan Triennial in 2016, within ESAD’s Master in interior Design.

Born in 1940, Paolo Deganello studied architecture at Florence University. In 1966, he joined Andrea Branzi, Gilberto Corretti, and Massimo Morozzi in founding Archizoom Associati in Florence, named after the British group of architects known as Archigram and the journal Zoom. Archizoom was part of the radical design movement in Italy, designing anti-design furniture, such as the corner set Safari and the San Remo palm-frond lamp (both 1968 for Poltronova). In 1973, Deganello collaborated with Gilberto Corretti on designing Archizoon, a line in office chairs manufactured by Marcatré. By 1972 Archizoom Associati had disbanded itself. and from 1972 until 1974 Paolo Deganello taught design at Florence University and the London Architectural Association. With his students, Deganello investigated the requirements for good, comfortable seat furniture, that conducted to pieces such as AEO (Cassina, 1973). In 1981, in his studio in Florence, designs the asymmetrical chair Torso (Cassina, 1982*). In 1987 Deganello showed his *Documenta Chair* at documenta 8 in Kassel. In 1991, designs the pair of chairs Re and Regina, with legs and frames of steel, seats of wickerwork, and backs of leather. Paolo Deganello showed work at numerous exhibitions, including taly: The New Domestic Landscape, the 1972 exhibition mounted by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He's a visiting lecturer in ESAD's Master in Interior Design since 2010 and responsible for the research unit in Architecture and Sustainable Inhabit .

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