GAE AULENTI
My Gae Aulenti's favourite is a coffee table designed in 1980.
At the time, when most of people used to furnish their homes with girly floral beddings, rattan sofas, and overwhelmingly colorful wallpapers (you remember that, do you?) Gae Aulenti was designing this....
the Tavolo Con Ruote (Table with wheels) is a coffee table with a 15 mm tempered glass on industrial wheels. Today it is produced by FontanaArte and after 34 years it still amazes me. This looks like an ironic and surprising statement around the concept of urban contamination and at the same time a re-interpretation of surrealistic avantgardes. Doesn't it look like a homage to Marcel Duchamp?
Then, in 1993, Gae Aulenti surprises us again with the Tour dining table and this time she uses a set of rotating bicycle wheels. The Tour table as well is produced by FontanaArte.
My Gae Aulenti's favourite is a coffee table designed in 1980.
At the time, when most of people used to furnish their homes with girly floral beddings, rattan sofas, and overwhelmingly colorful wallpapers (you remember that, do you?) Gae Aulenti was designing this....
the Tavolo Con Ruote (Table with wheels) is a coffee table with a 15 mm tempered glass on industrial wheels. Today it is produced by FontanaArte and after 34 years it still amazes me. This looks like an ironic and surprising statement around the concept of urban contamination and at the same time a re-interpretation of surrealistic avantgardes. Doesn't it look like a homage to Marcel Duchamp?
Gae Aulenti, together with Piero Castiglioni, designed in 1980 a group of lamps called Parola: two floor lamps and one smaller table lamp.
My Aulenti's favourite lamp is Pipistrello, designed in 1965 and named after the bat (pipistrello in Italian) for the shape of its diffuser resembling the wings of the animal. Adjustable height thanks to the telescopic movement of a stainless steel base. Available in different colors and in the newer LED version. I find the white one heavenly beautiful. Produced by Martinelli Luce
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