Doge
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- Description
- Designer Bio
A veritable masterpiece of the Italian design
tradition, this sculpture-like table became, in the late-1960s, the emblem of
the “Ultrarazionale” movement which, shrugging off the restraints imposed by
the Rationalists, aimed to re-embrace traditional aesthetic values. Part of
Cassina’s Simon Collection, the Doge table has been revisited with new textures
and new materials. The architectural aluminium or satin-finish steel base, set
off by the flat wide profiles, is the essential part of the table, while the
elegantly refined mechanism linking top to base can be seen from above, through
the glass of the table top. The new-look Doge table is available in five sizes,
all taking their cue from Carlo Scarpa’s original design, with the table top
being available in float-glass as well as white Carrara or black Marquiña
marble.
| About Designer | |
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Carlo Scarpa |
From architecture to works in glass, from design
projects to preparing museum exhibitions, the work of Carlo Scarpa has always
stood out in the unmistakable way in which it manages to bring together his love
for materials, his attention to detail and his masterly elaboration of organic
and Wrightian poetics. Architect, designer and artist, Scarpa left the Venice
Academy of Art in 1926 and began professional work, but continued to visit
craftsmen’s’ workshops and Venetian master glassworkers. For twenty years,
right up until the second half of the Forties, he received numerous commissions
to design, convert prepare buildings. |
