By Gabriella Crespi
Located in Roma, IT
Wonderful Gabriella Crespi signed and midcentury Lucite plexiglass, polished chromed metal box. This amazing item was made in Italy during 1970s.
This box is cylindrical with Lucite element at both ends and signed chromed metal body.
This is your chance to own a Gabriella Crespi original piece!
Bronze discs that open up like clamshells for storage and fold back in to become side tables. Sleek cubes barely suspended off the ground that transform into full-size dining tables. Clean-lined boxes that contain multilevel shelving. Looking at the work of Italian designer Gabriella Crespi, born in 1922 and still producing furniture in her Milan studio, it’s hard to believe that many of these highly functional pieces — modernist Rubik’s Cubes of materials, colors and ergonomics — were created decades ago.
Among her best-known creations, the bronze Ellisse table, 1976, and her bronze-and-lacquer Yang-Yin bar, 1979, encapsulate a designer who had a strong dualism in her vision, mixing humble and precious materials, for instance, or creating geometric shapes that were softened by sensual surfaces. Crespi began studying architecture in 1944 at the Politecnico, in Milan, where she was among just a handful of women, and became profoundly influenced by the work of Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright. After getting married and having children, she launched her own collections, from jewelry to furniture, and soon gained a loyal following, with design houses such as Maison Dior snapping pieces up for their own lines.
She began work on her most iconic collection, “Plurimi,” in the late 1960s, and the series — including her Dama table...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Gabriella Crespi Jewelry Boxes