Sculptural Traccia Table by Meret Oppenheim for Cassina

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Meret oppenheim traccia sculptural table
manufactured by cassina in italy.

in 1971, dino gavino launched what he called “l’opera d’arte … Read more Meret oppenheim traccia sculptural table
manufactured by cassina in italy.

in 1971, dino gavino launched what he called “l’opera d’arte funzionale”, or functional artworks, in so doing inaugurating a new approach of furnishing where surreal objects were adapted for everyday use. This led to the creation of the ultramobile collection. These pieces, that went beyond (ultra) furniture (mobile) engaged the imagination, complementing rational intelligence with a sense of wonder, where geometry interacted with fantasy. One of these pieces was the low table that the swiss artist meret oppenheim designed in 1929 for leo castelli’s avant-garde gallery, dubbing it the “bird leg table”, for fairly obvious reasons. The slim-line legs, and the taloned feet in polished cast bronze pay homage to the claw-foot furniture of the past. In the 1970s, the simon international company produced a limited edition in a smaller size. This has now been re-released by cassina, fully respecting the original design.

a synergy of geometry and imagination sparked the idea for the iconic traccia design low table that swiss artist meret oppenheim designed in 1939, calling it the “bird leg table” for obvious reasons.

the slender legs and taloned feet in polished cast bronze are a tribute to the classic claw foot furniture of centuries past.

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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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