Cicognino Coffee Table by Franco Albini for Cassina, 2010s

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A wooden serving table, model TN6 "Cicognino," produced by Cassina, designed by Franco Albini, 2000s.

Some objects embody the quintessence … Read more A wooden serving table, model TN6 "Cicognino," produced by Cassina, designed by Franco Albini, 2000s.

Some objects embody the quintessence of great design. They possess personality, ingenuity, functionality, and an intuitive charm that makes them universally beloved. The table affectionately known as "Cicognino" is one such example. Designed by Franco Albini in the mid-1950s, its evocative shape recalls the profile of a bird.

Although its lines are simple, it is not a mere conceptual exercise. It was a period of economic boom in Italy, when furniture and decorative objects had become consumer goods. In this context, leading figures in design sought—consciously or otherwise—to humanize mass production, which could be banal and impersonal, by creating forms and meanings that evoked a sense of familiarity and domesticity. Albini achieved this goal with remarkable success and without any rhetoric. He seemed to play with the very idea of ​​design, freeing it from the realm of the trained mind and the sterile reflections of designers for other designers, making it joyfully and immediately accessible to the user. In the "Cicognino," the handle is a beak and the beak is a handle: simple, immediate, and ingenious.

Coffee tables in mint condition, still with their warranty and stamped and signed under the base.

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