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Shown here is Fabbiano Mattiazzi's son, Fransceso. Even though Mattiazzi is known for using high-tech equipment, its furniture has a soft, handmade-looking quality. "An eight-axis CNC milling machine allows wood to take the complex shapes associated with injection-molded plastic. Operating such a machine is an art and Mattiazzi disproves the modern myth that mechanized manufacturing is not a craft,” writes designer Jonathan Olivares in the catalog.