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SILVER Seller in Pistoia, Italy
Sunny pedestal table with a wooden frame and round smoked glass top, designed by Giovanni Offredi and produced by Saporiti in the 1970s. Giovanni Offredi was an important Italian furniture and product designer of the second half of the 20th century. Unlike most other Italian furniture designers of his time, Giovanni Offredi was not an architect, nor did he start designing at the beginning of his professional career. Instead, Offredi fits partially into the career path of some talented contemporary designers who pursue product design outside of a formal education in architecture. The first furniture design works known to Giovanni Offredi consisted of exemplary furnishings made especially for some wealthy families in Milan. This is the case with the works Offredi made for Casa C. in 1960 in Gorgonzola, a small town 14 miles from Milan. These works were designed with a surprisingly minimal simplicity and elegance, and also clearly show a hallmark of his design work with the use of angular lines and exposed metal or wooden frames, not unlike some of the modern Scandinavian designs of the time. In the late 1960s, Giovanni Offredi met Sergio Saporiti, the owner of an Italian design shop and furniture manufacturer Saporiti, and in 1970 Offredi formalised a partnership with the furniture manufacturer. This collaboration was to be a long and fruitful one and would lead to many furniture designs of distinct precision, clearly modern and innovative, which were commercially successful. Among the most important pieces of furniture produced by Offredi for Saporiti are the Paracarro table (1970), consisting of a simple cylindrical concrete base with a metal cross-section on top and a glass top; the Sail chair (1973); the Wave dining chairs (1974) and the Wave sofa and armchair (1975); and the P600 and P650 oval elliptical tables, similar to the Paracarro table but larger and with two bases and, in some cases, with wooden bases instead of concrete. In 1984, Giovanni Offredi collaborated with Snaidero, an Italian manufacturer of high-end furniture and kitchens, creating several configurations, such as Krios (1984), Kalia (1986), Pragma (1987), Contralto (1988) and Kube (2006).
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