Font Bookcase by Turi Aquino for DESINE

Font is a bookcase with an ambitious project: to put order to disorder, to give a basic rule that life itself will always try to transgress. The shelves alone couldn’t do it, so the letters of the alphabet came to their rescue. So the library has also become a kind of mobile filing cabinet. The structure of Font is three modules that turn and rotate on a central pin, creating many possible configurations. There is no need for a supporting wall for this association game. On the contrary, Font lives well in the centre of a room and detached from the walls, so rotating, selecting and ordering becomes child’s play.
Turi Aquino was born in 1948 in Grammichele and attended the Regional School of Art where he graduated as an art teacher in the Wood section. He enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania and at the same time he was hired as an interior designer in a well-known store in the city. After finishing his studies, in 1975 he returned to his hometown and continued to work as an interior and graphic designer. After several awards in the field of ceramics Aquino, eclectic artist, experiments and works only on the epidermis of majolica and begins to control the glass at high temperatures. 1988 receives the assignment for the teaching of Paintings at the Regional Institute of Art in Grammichele and since 1992 teaches Visual Education at the Art School of Caltagirone.