Mid-Century Modern Console Table by Ico Parisi for Cassina, Italy

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Table designed by ico parisi in 1947, relaunched in 2020. Manufactured by cassina in italy. The idea for this console … Read more Table designed by ico parisi in 1947, relaunched in 2020. Manufactured by cassina in italy. The idea for this console table, designed by ico parisi in 1947 for a private client, stemmed from a few lines drawn on a sheet of paper: a horizontal line and two oblique lines to define a structure with almost perfect proportions and an organic appearance. Cassina has respected and enhanced the heart of this project by combining technology with craftsmanship, typical of the company's carpentry workshop; the result is a refined solid wood console table embellished with metal details that adapts to all rooms in the home. Its rectangular plane has four straight notched recesses on the two longest sides, near the extremities, within which, like real joints, the tips of the characteristic divergent "y" shape upper arms of the legs, available in ash or canaletto walnut, are screwed and bound two by two to a shaped crossbar. Balance and strength are guaranteed by two oblique turned solid wood elements, joined diagonally to the crossbar and embedded in the structure below. Important information regarding images of products: please note that some of the images show other colors and variations of the model, these images are only to present interior design proposals. The item that is selling is on the first image. Important information regarding colour(s) of products: actual colours may vary. This is due to the fact that every computer monitor, laptop, tablet and phone screen has a different capability to display colours and that everyone sees these colours differently. We try to edit our photos to show all of our products as life-like as possible, but please understand the actual colour may vary slightly from your monitor about the designer: domenico parisi, nicknamed ico, was born in palermo on the 23rd of september 1916 to sicilian parents who were living in the piedmont region. In 1925 the parisi family moved to como where ico earned his diploma as a building inspector in 1936 and completed an apprenticeship at studio terragni. The studio gave him the opportunity to get to know and interact with prominent figures of como's architecture and art world such as cattaneo, lingeri, radice, rho, persico and sartoris. Passionate about cinema and photography, at studio terragni's request he photographed the casa del fascio. Discharged from the front in 1943, he returned to como and resumed his design activity, mainly working on individual furnishings, exhibition stands and interior architecture. He collaborated with luisa aiani and soon married her in 1947. Together they opened the studio la ruota, a place of design but also a place of art, exhibitions and culture. About the manufacturer: in a continuing dialogue between past, present, and future, cassina has created the i maestri collection, revisiting furnishing designs by the twentieth century’s best-known architects, including le corbusier, pierre jeanneret, charlotte perriand, charles rennie mackintosh, gerrit thomas rietveld, franco albini, frank lloyd wright and marco zanuso. While the designs and functional concepts have been precisely preserved, the models have been manufactured using evolved technology. This is also the company that has manufactured iconic pieces of contemporary design from the 50’s to the present day, ideated by some of the most important international designers. Today cassina continues to look to the future of design with audacious, passionate curiosity and an open, holistic approach. It affirms its exclusive ability to furnish a home’s living and dining spaces completely and iconically with the cassina perspective: a concept, a philosophy, an informed, futuristic thought. A detailed, expansive horizon of combinations; when placed together, the products have an innovative soul and the modern icons create authentic, welcoming, personal atmospheres involved in a conversation dominated by a code of design excellence, formal sensitive awareness, solidity and cultural authority. This piece is attributed to the mentioned designer/maker. It has no attribution mark and no
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