Marc Sadler is a French citizen born in Austria who has lived and worked in France, North America, Asia and Italy. He was among the first graduates in industrial aesthetics at ENSAD in Paris, where his thesis focused on plastics, and he has long experimented with materials and their combinations. That attention to how a material behaves informs his work for Riva 1920. The Fiord Stool (2009) is made from a single block of scented cedar and defined by one side cut, a single operation that gives the solid form its profile and opens the interior of the wood to view. It serves equally as a low seat or a side table. He returned to the company with Insieme (2018), offered as both a stool and a table, and with the sculptural Totem, extending an approach in which one decisive gesture on the material carries the design.
