BEST LOOKING RISERS: EVER
Bow’s resident aesthetician Guillaume Bayeuse pontificates on his all-time favourites.
SPIGARELLI REVOLUTION / REV2
An Italian masterpiece. Ignore the carping from the loggionisti about ’skis with scoliosis’, this is one of Sante’s finest achievements as a creator. The modernist lines and the carefully measured liminal space are a triumph in form, and allowing for some delineated colour. Its qualities as a riser, as the centre of a setup, have perhaps never quite been proven. Its qualities as an object are peerless and daring.
WIAWIS ATF
Like a spirit level in a hall of mirrors, the ATF is the latest in a long line of honeycombed aluminium beasts from Win & Win, seemingly closer to the Ulm School than whatever the finest design grads in Seoul can come up with. There is something of industry and kinematics here, the pockets like something you’d see on a factory roof. But it has presence. It belongs.
And this one in black and gold, too! A short route to classy, but a rightly well-trodden one.