*Offre spéciale *Bbpr For Olivetti, Spazio Table-Desk, 50s/60s

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50% discount
Initial price: 1900€ 
Discount price: 950€

*Offre spéciale  on the products indicated, while stocks last

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Large 'Spazio' table or desk with a top covered in green vinyl, resting on a gray and black metal base. The feet end in black circular tips.

Model from Studio BBPR for Olivetti, in the 1950s/1960s
The “Spazio” series was designed by Studio BBPR for Olivetti: in 1954, the Italian office equipment manufacturer hired BBPR to design its New York showroom on Fifth Avenue and to create its first series of office furniture, called Spazio (1959/60). This line included chairs, desks, shelves and cabinet systems. Pelle won the Compasso d'Oro award in 1962.
Today, the “Spazio” series desk is part of MoMA’s permanent collection.

BBPR was an architectural partnership founded by Gianluigi Banfi (1910-1945), Lodovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso (1909-2004), Enrico Peressutti (1908-1976) and Ernesto Nathan Rogers (1909-1969). BBPR was therefore an acronym formed from the first letters of their last names.
The partnership was founded in opposition to fascism. BBPR wanted to develop a style that had no reference to contemporary politics.
During World War II, they all joined the resistance.
However, Rogers, a Jew, fled to Switzerland and Belgiojoso and Banfi were both deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, where Banfi died in 1945.
Despite the immense loss of Banfi, their architectural practice continued under the same name as before after the war.
It was especially in the 1950s that they created many of their major projects. With their designs, they reacted strongly against the International Style, with its rectilinear forms and flat, taut surfaces, completely devoid of ornamentation. On the contrary, the group has enriched its buildings with medieval references, with the best-known example being the Torre Velasca in Milan.

As is: wear on the feet, stain on vinyl

H81cm
180 x 79 cm

Ref: 0S589EGKX4