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Roger Tallon's Cockle armchairs, 1965 The Ladder and the Shade by Adrien Petrucci DILMOS MILANO 44 CULTURED Adrien Petrucci graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven last year and for his graduation show created Reformed Objects. The objects are a commentary on consumerism and consumption: "It is easy to always want more if you never have to sacrifice anything to get it," Petrucci says. "Consumerism can go unchecked, growing into rampant greed with no sense of what it's costing society or the environment." In Petrucci's series an object has to be destroyed to a degree in order to create something new, thus ending the cycle of wasteful consumption. JOUSSE ENTREPRISE Perhaps best known for his transportation design, particularly the TGV high-speed train in France, Roger Tallon was a designer who could not be constrained to one arena. His desire to create environments, and not just objects, is expressed through the Module 400 series produced in 1965. Devised for a nightclub housed in a former garage, Tallon conjured up the illusion of a stretch of motorway with metal tiles that criss-crossed the floor. The furniture produced for the space has a similar aesthetic and includes the Cockle armchairs, seen above.