Alberto Rosselli Geometric Coffee Cocktail Table Velvet Saporiti Italy 1970s

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Alberto Rosselli Coffee / Cocktail table For Saporiti 'Confidential', Italy Design, 1972
Matching Ottoman (comes with glass top, to serve … Read more Alberto Rosselli Coffee / Cocktail table For Saporiti 'Confidential', Italy Design, 1972
Matching Ottoman (comes with glass top, to serve as a coffee table if desired).
Note: The pair of Saporiti Confidential sofas are also available, sold separately.

This unique and very rare square velvet upholsterd cocktail / coffee table was from the an Italian collection also featuring a pair of matching Confidential sofas also by Alberto Rosselli for Saporiti.

Incredibly rare and 100% original original velvet geometric brown designer textile.

No label present. We take full responsibility for authenticity of this item, as seen in design catalogues and design history.

Dimensions:
Height: 14"
Width: 35"
Depth: 35"
Glass is 3/8" thick

Alberto Rosselli (1921-1976) was born in Palermo, capital of the island of Sicily in Italy. After he graduated in architecture from the Politecnico di Milano in 1947, he stayed and worked in Milan. In 1950, Rosselli, Gio Ponti, and Antonio Fornaroli formed the architecture/design firm Studio Ponti Fornaroli Rosselli (P.F.R) where he worked on his first architectural project ‘Pirelli Tower’ in 1954. During the same year, with the help of Ponti, he founded and directed his own journal titled ‘Stile Industria’, which focused on improving the relationship between design and industry in Italy. The issues incorporated topics that touched on different disciplines, such as design, architecture, and arts, which made significant contributions to the design discourse until its last publication in 1963. He became an acknowledged pioneer of industrial design, co-founding the Association for Industrial Design (ADI) in 1956, and between 1961 and 1963, working as a vice-president for the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID). Here, he pursued a career in the academic field where he developed new teaching that embodied sophisticated methodological principles. He introduced the concept and process of “decision-making” in design to the faculty of architecture in the University of Milan. Rosselli passed away in 1976, who left his mark as an architect, designer, and university lecture, a man known for his theoretical approach to industrial design. See less