Martino’s Shop
Exhibition View Continental Armchair 2002 Custom-made cushion 50 x 65 x 120cm, Unique Napoleon Chair 2002 Chair, Victorian handrail, chemistry clamps, heat sensitive fabric 50 x 65 x 70cm, Unique Anton Chair 2002 45 x 45 x 60cm Chair, Victorian hand rail, timber and plywood, Unique Barbarossa Mini Bar 2002 Cabinet, hinges, granite, timber and plywood 40 x 40 x 110cm, Unique Barbarossa Mini Bar 2002 40 x 40 x 110cm Cabinet, hinges, granite, timber and plywood, Unique Yoichi Coffee Table 2002 Handrail, glass 40 x 40 x 30cm, Unique Toby Coffee Table 2002 Handrail, floor slab, Unique Josephine Coffee Table 2002 Victorian handrail, glass, handrail 40 x 45 x 30cm, Unique Salvador Clock Table 2002 Clock, timber and plywood 50 x 50 x 30cm, Unique Dinah Stool 2002 Light, door handles, seat, timber and plywood 45 x 45 x 90cm, Unique Cherry Chair 2002 Cherry timber, handle, timber and plywood 30 x 40 x 90cm, Unique Suzy Chair 2002 Office chair, custom screen printed wooden slaps, re-upholstered back 45 x 45 x 70cm, Unique
Horse Table 01 2002 Table legs, table tops 550 × 650 x 850mm, Unique Horse Table 02 2002 Table legs, table tops, timber and plywood 550 × 650 x 850mm, Unique Box and a Stick Stools 2002 Cherry timber, curtain rail 400 × 2000 x 500mm, Unique Adam and Charlotte Bench 2002 Table, chair back 400 × 600 x 750mm, Unique Hanging Box Kitchen Trolley 2002 Chair base, coatstand, wooden box 300 x 1500 x 450mm, Unique Hold-on Vase 2002 Vacuum flask, chemistry clamps, wood 150 x 300 x 180mm, Unique Split Chair 2002 Chair, mdf 500 x 700 x 750mm, Unique Long Bench 2002 Chair, cherry timber 700 x 2000 x 850mm, Unique Dagmar Chair 2002 Chair frame, curtain rails 500 × 500 x 750mm, Unique Three-legged Table 2002
Exhibition View Wendy & Jim Folding Chairs 2003 Folding chairs, velvet fabric, foam 450 × 450 x 750mm, Unique Black on White Coffee Table 2003 Chair seats, timber and plywood 500 x 450 x 430mm, Unique Susanna Chair 2003 Chair, upholstered timber armrest 460 × 460 x 680mm, Unique Rosso Nero 2003 Chairs, plywood 500 × 500 x 670mm, Unique Libero Chair 2003 Chair, chair seat, chemistry clamps, upholstered seat 450 × 450 x 680mm, Unique Vespa-ino Chair 2003 Vespa Yankee seat, chair 600 × 300 x 650mm, Unique Top of the Stick Chair 2003 Chair, coat hanger base, metal 400 × 400 x 1500mm, Unique Skirt Chair 2003 chair, fabric, foam, plywood seat, spray paint 450 × 450 x 650mm, Unique
Walking Carpet Stamp Walking Carpet Flipflops 2003, Carpet, leather, rivets Edition of 80
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Trattoria Al Cappello Hand made pasta dough! Dish washing behind the bar! Fresh seasonal ingredients! Imported dairy products! Gourmets! Cooks! Italian gyoza! Temporary kitchen! 25 people x 5 dishes = 125 plates! Identifying dandelion! 300 kg of food and furniture! Changing the oil of the deepfryer! Silk-screen printed placemats!
Drawing the Ginger Masking with PVA glue Preparing the screen Preparing the screen Attaching Henry the Hoover Ready to Print The Final Prints
Corner Bench 2003 Bent plywood Corner Bench 2003 Bent plywood Corner Bench 2003 Bent plywood Corner Bench 2003 Bent plywood Corner Bench 2003 Bent plywood

We Make Remake - Petrified

2002
Retrovius, London, Uk

Immediately after the second Village Fete, Rainer and Martino started to develop more and more what they now called the We Make Remake project. Within 6 months (Autumn–Winter 2002), they have ‘re-made’, exhibited and sold more than 50 unique pieces of furniture.

All the pieces shown are from Petrified, a show organised by Retrouvius, an Architectural Reclamation and Design partnership formed by Adam Hills and Maria Speake, ‘working for the past decade to promote salvage and re-use’.

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We Make Remake










Waste to Taste

13 – 21 February 2003
Sotheby's, London, Uk

Before the end of Petrified, Martino and Rainer were commissioned to make unique pieces for the Waste to Taste exhibition at Sotheby’s Contemporary Show 2003

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Walking Carpet

Eddie Mundy and Martino Gamper’s carpet flip flop stall at the 2003 V&A Village Fete
(Martino takes the photo while Eddie convinces a potential customer).






Trattoria al Cappello

2004
Trattoria at Hat On Wall, London, Uk

Bwytada
Enjoy your meal
Smaklig måltid
Bon appétit
Buon appetito
Gochisô sama
!









Trattoria al Cappello

(e-mail invitation, circa 2003)

Dear Friends:
After previous successes and further hunger for excitement and experimentation for cooking, Martino [and Maki, Kajsa & Alex (he has left us for Japan)] will prepare more stimulation and enjoyment. Therefore, we would like to invite you to the Trattoria al Cappello for another cooking evening at Hat On Wall Bar.
Looking forward to see you there,
Ciao

Trattoria al Cappello
Thought for food by Martino

From memory and in no particular order, what we’ve eaten so far:
watermelon, ginger, spinach, hand made ravioli, feta cheese, vanilla ice, peppers, fennel, pumpkins, soya sauce, extra virgin olive oil, eggs, cucumbers, aubergines, sesame seeds, basil, garlics (fresh and dried), buffalo mozzarellas, bulgur, dandelions, water, salt, butter, dragon fruits, chocolate, figs, chestnuts, pomegranates, coriander, parsley, nutmeg, courgettes, lemons, apricots, foccacia, rosemary, bananas, prosecco, parmesan, flour, balsamic vinegar, poppyseed oil, pumpkin seed oil, red wine, white wine, ricotta, haloumi cheese, pine nuts, mushrooms, homegrown tomatoes, bay leaves, coconut milk, sugar, onions, fern sprouts, saffron, grappa, lime, honey, spring onions, radishes, apples, etc.














Screenprint Machine

2003
Timber frame, hinges, melamine board with holes
Unique
50 x 80 x 8cm

Our idea of a trattoria involved placemats. For each one of the monthly event, a new one is produced in small quantity. This was the best opportunity and context to start a small screenprint workshop. Although we were familiar with the semi-automatic silk screen process from formative years in design colleges, we decided to rather follow instructions derived from May 68 DIY posters stories we had heard of — and later researched. Martino built the hinged frames, including a vaccum device to hold the paper down and we used ‘curtain’ material combined with PVA glue to produce the ‘screen’. An extract from 'What Martino did Between two-thousand and two-thousand&four' published by Dent-De-Leone, 2004.







Corner Bench

2003
Bent plywood