320 Berlino Table
An
extendable table, exemplifying the perfect balance between classic and
contemporary, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh in 1905. The unique nature
of this natural cherrywood table lies in the mechanism under the table-top that
allows the table to be extended, this thanks to the small board located in the
middle of the longest side of the top. When the upper table-top is lifted, one
or both of the extensions can be added to the table.
About Designer | |
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh |
Glasgow/Londra, 1868/1928 Charles Rennie Mackintosh was born in Glasgow in 1868
and died in London on 10th December 1928. His personality is one of those that
characterize the period immediately preceding the Modern Movement. His name is mainly connected with the design for the
Glasgow School of Art: he was the animator and most authoritative exponent of
the group known as the “Glasgow School” and he distinguished himself
principally because he recovered the most authentic values of the Scottish
idiom and of neo-Gothic taste. The group, also named “the School of Ghosts”, became
known throughout Europe – in Liege in 1895, London in 1896, Vienna in 1900,
Turin in 1902, Moscow in 1903, Budapest etc.Besides the School of Art, the most
interesting works are undoubtedly: the “Windyhill” house at Kilmacolm (1900),
the “Hill House” at Helensburgh (1902-3), the arrangement of the Derngate
house, Northampton (1916-20), and the decorative work in Miss Cranston’s
Tea-Rooms in Glasgow. Among the furnishings of his decorative interiors, it is
above all the chair – an object of special attention in the “Cassina I Maestri”
collection – which represents the focal point for coordinated spatial action.
Within it, the controlling force of the composition is
always resolved, sometimes articulated in fluent and delicate forms, at other
times in severely geometric forms. |