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"Kroma" Desk by Antonia Astori for Driade, Italy, 1980s

Name: "Kroma" Desk by Antonia Astori for Driade, Italy, 1980s
Brand: Antonia Astori
Price: 3453.24 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Architect, designer, and entrepreneur, Antonia Astori began her own design activity within the Driade company, founded with her brother Enrico and Adelaide Acerbi, to whom she offers highly professional and creative achievements. For Driade organizes the exhibition space for trade shows and promote their corporate visibility. Also plans stores Marithè and Francois Girbaud, while maintaining its constants where the project is able to create environments of great character and originality in harmony with the architecture of the place. Among his works are those for interior architecture and design of the apartments. Of great importance are the apartment because of the Cloisters in Milan in 1976, the villa in Melzo of Milan in 1979, the Milan apartment in Viale Maino, the studio where he works in Via Rossini, Driade and offices in Piacenza. The year in which Antonia Astori began his career as an architect and designer in 1968, the year when, along with other colleagues, suggests new architectural and functional before the need for effective organization of space. Driade 1, its first project, in view of the space problems due to overcrowding has been designed primarily to be proposed as an infrastructure for indoor spaces. It consists of a system of independent volumes which, although independent, are penetrable and modular. In this idea of a system designed as an aggregation of independent parts, volumes made of lacquered wood, chipboard, lies the new concept of the project: split, with the introduction of volume, the interior of a room. Begins to take hold with the idea that a system can furnish and divide all areas of a single environment in a practical and functional.

Creator:

Antonia Astori (Designer)

Dimensions:

Height: 28.75 in (73 cm)Width: 63 in (160 cm)Depth: 28.75 in (73 cm)

Sold As:

Set of 2

Style:

Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Wood

Place of Origin:

Italy

Period:

1980-1989

Date of Manufacture:

1980

Condition:

Wear consistent with age and use.

Seller Location:

Brussels, BE

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU2265329243142

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Antonia Astori has masterfully designed modern furniture for the ages. As a cofounder of Italian furniture brand Driade, Astori has created dining tables, desks, serveware and elegant, visually striking modular storage pieces to make the most of space in a given room.

Born in Milan, Astori graduated from the Athenaeum of Lausanne in 1966, with a focus in Industrial and Visual Design. She cofounded Driade in 1968, along with her brother Enrico and sister-in-law Adelaide Acerbi.

Oikos, Astori’s earliest and — one of her most notable — collections for Driade, brought rich geometry by way of modular storage solutions inspired by architecture to interiors everywhere in 1972. Demand has remained strong for pieces from the Oikos collection, even into the 21st century.

In addition to working as a designer within her company, Astori also serves as project coordinator — overseeing the development and progress of new Driade product lines. She has also worked on Driade’s visual identity and branding. Over the course of her long history at the company, Astori has had the pleasure of partnering with many notable architects and designers.

Driade's initial collaborations included Italian designers such as Enzo Mari, Nanda Vigo, Giotto Stoppino and Rodolfo Bonetto, to name a few. In the 1980s, the brand worked with influential and renowned designers from around the globe. In 1984, Driade partnered with French designer Philippe Starck and debuted his iconic Costes armchair during the same year. Projects with architects and furniture designers such as Ron Arad, Toyo Ito, Borek Sipek, Patricia Urquiola and others followed into the 2000s.

Over more than five decades — the company celebrated their 50th anniversary in 2018 — Driade’s fruitful partnerships have culminated in a vast catalog of chairs, sofas, coffee tables and other furnishings for the home and garden that evoke a unique and diverse blend of cultures. Faye Toogood’s chunky, stout Roly Poly armchair and Fabio Novembre’s enigmatic Nemo chair — in which a backrest assumes the form of a human face — are just two examples of Driade’s eclectic furnishings. Astori continues to work as project manager and designer for the firm.

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