In 1971 Dino Gavina, daringly broke away from the confines of previous trends by taking works of art and making them into “functional” pieces of furniture, creating a whole new line of furniture for Simon called Ultramobile, and finding surprising new ways to adapt Surrealist pieces, converting them into everyday household objects. With pieces which are now known by all - Magritta, Le Temoin, Ron Ron, Les grands trans-Parents, Fausto, Traccia, Costantin, Margarita, Saccoalato, Lorenz – Ultramobile was on the side of people’s imagination: not getting into a debate with the Euclidean geometry with the image of houses offered by functional Rationalism,...but rather, offering an intelligent answer as to how to fill spaces, adding fantasy to geometric lines, finding something that went beyond this strict obedience to rules, like a flash of lightning, finding a surprising new way to light up the room...