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Gastone Rinaldi, attributed to.
Table. Smoked glass top. Circular and openwork metal base.
Italian work made in the 1970s.
Gastone Rinaldi (1920-2016) is an Italian designer. In 1916, his father, Mario Rinaldi, founded RIMA, a company that produced metal furniture. In 1948, Gastone Rinaldi and his brother replaced their father within the company. He met Gio Ponti in 1950 and designed, with his help, the chairs (DU10 and DU11) for the hospital section of the IX Triennale di Milano. On this occasion it also presents the chair with rocking back DU9. During this period, the magazine Domus regularly publishes his achievements. He took part in the XXXth Fiera Campionaria, in 1952, in the “Art and Industrial Aesthetics” section, whose curators were, among others, Alberto Rosselli, Ettore Sottsass and Marco Zanuso. In 1954, he received the Compasso d'Oro for the DU30 chair. He participated with Ponti, Parisi, De Carli and Gardella in the American adventure of Altamira, one of the first foreign companies to call on Italian designers. He designs, with Carlo Mollino, the chairs for the Molinette Hospital in Turin. In 1957, the DU41 armchair won the silver medal at the XIth Milan Triennale. Over the years, however, relations within RIMA would become complicated and in 1974 Gastone Rinaldi founded the company Thema. In 1978, he obtained a mention at the Compasso d'Oro for the Arianna armchair and, in 1981, a second for the Daphné folding chair, his last masterpiece. The Thema will close in 1989.
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