Refined and elegant Italian coffee table with round top. The four black painted wooden legs, inclined outwards, have a distinctive, eccentric and unique design. It has larger dimensions than normal coffee tables. The craftsmen used a Sapele-root veneer for the top, using a special twelve-step leveling and polishing technique. These processes have allowed, as can be seen from the exceptional designs of the top, to enhance the chromaticism and flame of this beautiful wood, giving the table a unique and exclusive elegance and refinement. The coffee table was produced between 1950 and 1953 in Meda in the province of Monza and Brianza in Lombardy (Italy), a place famous for its design industry and historic luxury artisan production of classic and modern furniture. The craftsmen created the coffee table following a model by the famous Italian designer Ico Parisi, in fact this eclectic artist often had some of his designs made by small, but precious, valuable and exclusive, artisan workshops as well as by large companies. Ico Parisi (Palermo 1916 - Como 1996) was one of the protagonists of 20th century Como culture. In 1951 he began friendships and collaborations with artists, designers and architects such as Lucio Fontana, Bruno Munari, Mario Radice and Gio Ponti. These relationships profoundly influenced his approach to architecture and furniture design and exemplified Parisi's desire to integrate a synthesis of the arts into his work. By the mid-1950s, Parisi had become one of Italy's most influential furniture designers, with a uniquely modern aesthetic using softwoods often shaped into sweeping undulating curves or simple, essential shapes. Parisi is a figure of a "humanist" artist who is difficult to place, he was an architect and designer but also a photographer, director and painter, in short, an all-round artist. He died in Como on 19 December 1996. Sapele (or Sapelli or Sapeli) is a species of precious reddish wood originating from West Africa. It has characteristics similar to mahogany and, in some applications, even better than mahogany itself. It is a strong, hard, compact and rather flexible wood. Also due to its attractive appearance, it is used as a substitute for mahogany for high-quality furniture, such as wardrobes, tables, chairs and chests of drawers, for fine cabinet-making work, for the creation of musical instruments and for furnishing luxury boats. . Sapele is characterized by a color tone ranging from red-brown to dark brown, often with darker veins, black stripes and shades of yellow. Its consistency is uniform and has a shiny appearance. Additionally, Sapele is known for its strength and hardness. It has good impact resistance and good durability, making it suitable for use in furniture and objects subject to mechanical stress. Our coffee table, with its clean and rational lines, with the reliability of its wood, with the iconicity and style of its design is an incomparable, exceptional, rare and precious object. It has been completely restored and is therefore in excellent condition.
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