FLAT PIANO
How to maintain the entrancing qualities of the grand piano, made important by the coherence between its sound and its physical impressiveness, in the smaller spaces of homes today? The piano is integrated and combined with the furnishings of the home: an electronic keyboard runs under a large glossy white top with an electronic device that acts as its sound board. When not being played it becomes a work or dining table.
Project description
How to maintain the entrancing qualities of the grand piano, made important by the coherence between its sound and its physical impressiveness, in the smaller spaces of homes today? The piano is integrated and combined with the furnishings of the home: an electronic keyboard runs under a large glossy white top with an electronic device that acts as its sound board. When not being played it becomes a work or dining table.
The top is in etched glass backpainted white, forming a smooth surface, deep and rather cold. The system is based on a built-in master keyboard amplified to a panel which exploits the properties of the Feonic system to transform the table top into an acoustic panel/soundboard.
The electric keyboard is connected to a miniaturized (Feonic) amplifier which transforms the whole table top into a three-dimensional sound box. The amplifier creates three-dimensional sound and distributes it uniformly across the whole table top.
TYPOLOGY: piano and dining table
COMPANY: deepdesign_self production
DATE: 2006
EXHIBITIONS:
First exhibited Soundesign 2006, Milano;
Triennale Design Museum – “the new Italian design” 2007;
Triennale Design Museum – “L’anima sensibile delle cose”.