Artist: Carlo Mollino
Data: 2003
Muzeum: Sforza Castle (Milan, Italy)
Technika: Glass
The Cavour desk was designed by the architect Carlo Mollino forthe interior of Casa Orengo in Turin.The desk comprises only the parallelepipeds of the set ofdrawers and single drawer, the transparent top and the supporting spine. It owes its elegance to the technique ofcold-moulding wood (developed and patented by Mollino himself), which enablesthe achievement of a lighter, dynamic form that draws inspiration from theorganic movement. Thelightness, a fundamental mark of this furniture, is determined both by the useof construction materials - maple wood - and by the dynamic shape of the legs.Mollino, an architect by training, also worked as a designer in the 1940s,designing furniture, often made as exclusive pieces. With these products,Mollino tried to combine the artisan tradition with experimentation of newmaterials and new technologies to obtain original objects that had totalfreedom of form and were highly innovative from a static point of view, likethis desk with its
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