Some objects solve problems. Some objects are problems — lodged in the world like a question that refuses to close.

This is the second kind of work.

A chocolate form designed to be worn on the body, broken against the skin, and consumed. A desk object whose structural holes are the street map of a city — functional, silent, legible only to those who already know. A stool shaped as a scaled-up medical suppository, named with an anagram, aimed vertically at the people who run things. Objects that move between use and statement without settling in either.

The practice does not have a category because the interesting problems do not have categories. Some pieces have been in production for twenty years. Some exist in single editions. Some have sat in collector hands in Las Vegas, Hong Kong, Venice. None of them were made to fill a gap in the market.

Corrado Tibaldi trained at the Politecnico di Torino and the Royal College of Art in London — institutions where, at the time, the question of what an object is allowed to mean was still being argued seriously. That argument has not been resolved. This work continues it.

CTplatform.ch is the archive: incomplete by design, incoherent by necessity, and open to commission for those who want something that has not been made yet.

**For the record.**

Radiosa, in continuous commercial production since 2004, was included in Italy’s official Milan Expo 2016 catalog. Precious and Delicious, the wearable chocolate object referenced above, was selected by the ADI Food Design Delegation Italy and shown at the JCK Show in Las Vegas, and in Hong Kong, in 2008. Piuma, the desk object whose perforations trace the Vercelli city plan, was the top-selling item at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection bookshop during the Vercelli Arca presence.

**Three contexts. Same hands.**

CTplatform is the personal research practice.

For applied innovation consulting and rapid concept-to-prototype work, see **CTDC** at  https://corradotibaldi.com. Two to six weeks from idea to executive-ready prototype, evidence-based.

For larger corporate engagements and multi-disciplinary collaboration, see **Distinctive Dots** at https://distinctivedots.com, the collective in which Corrado is a partner.

Commissions and acquisitions: studio@ctplatform.ch