Piece of Furniture, Wood and Metal, Luigi Caccia Dominoni 1970s
Features
Production: Azucena
Model: MB3
Time: 1970s
Material: Lacquered Wood , Chromed Metal
Description
Piece of furniture with drawer and swing doors; lacquered wood with chromed metal outlines and detail.
Product Condition:
Cabinet in good condition. Wear consistent with age and use.
Dimensions (cm):
Height: 75
Width: 120
Depth: 47
Additional Information
Production: Azucena
That of the Azucena is a story born from the dialogue between producer, architect, artisans and customers. It all began in 1947, when a group of young Milanese - Luigi Caccia Dominioni, Corrado Corradi Dell'Acqua, Ignazio Gardella, Maria Teresa and Franca Tosi - decided to start the production of furniture designed by some of them in order to have a repertoire of ready-made furnishings, from sofas to handles, from tables to doorstops, for the homes they are planning. They are experimental furniture and objects that modify custom, contemplating the use without preconceptions of new materials, often combined with traditional ones in a completely surprising way. Even the realization is laborious and complex because their components are many and can come indifferently from industry or crafts. The lacquer, the polished chromed brass, the crystal reveal a constant search for luminosity, brilliance, transparencies, in materials as well as in finishes and colors, to escape from a conventional severe opacity. The furnishings are often called prosaically (Funnel, Boccia, Chrome bands, Ventola, Toro) to indicate, in a synthetic organicistic vision, a form, a constitutive principle; in other cases the names are taken from the toponym (Arenzano, Bordighera, Sant'Ambrogio or San Siro) used to designate the specific architecture that originally contained them and justified their design. At the base, therefore, of every single Azucena piece there is a particular architectural condition that it continues to reverberate, reproducing the echo of a reason for being.Time: 1970s
1970sMaterial:
Lacquered Wood
Chromed Metal
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