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I was asked by Andrea Magnani to create a piece of work for a new project of his called Hollo, a website hosting a collection of designs to be printed, on demand, to pieces of furniture. This is it. This edition of Bg_img takes the form of a piece of furniture.

The pattern for this design is a collage of the background gradients of more than 50 websites. The gradient background image is a .jpg typically 1 or 2 pixels wide and approaching a thousand long, repeated along the x-axis. It is also approaching the status of anomaly; it would be in danger of extinction were it not for the garish non-compliant CSS quirks of Internet Explorer. Where otherwise the background image has become more refined, shifting from early rough textures and garish psychedelia to the smoother, more polished surface of the gradient, the gradient itself – the high waterline of Modernism and web-design – is in the process of being usurped by a few lines of CSS code. This Bg_img acts as monument and archive to the gradient as both object and ornament.