Superstudio Tables

Large dining table model Quaderna 2600 made in Italy in 1971 by Superstudio for Zanotta. An iconic design with a refined profile, a high quality conception and a graphic grid pattern...

Lambda table by Superstudio for Giovannetti, Italy, 1972 Lambda table, designed in 1972. Made of ash wood, produced by Giovannetti, Italy. A distinctive piece that blends minimalist...

Round coffee table in white lacquered wood with central lamp designed by Superstudio. The table can be turned on itself. Wear and tear due to age. For shipping, request us for receiv...

Quaderna Console designed by SuperStudio (Honeycomb core structure coated with White plastic laminate, digitally printed with black Squares at 1 3/16” spacing.) Dimensions: W180 x D ...

Desk table model 'Quaderna' designed by Superstudio and produced by Zanotta from 1971. Made of honeycomb and screen-printed plasticized laminate, it bears the production mark.

Superstudio first production square "Quaderna" dining table for Zanotta, Italy, 1971 Additional Information: Materials: Laminate, wood, original sticker label Condition: Very go...

Console table. Honeycomb core structure coated with white plastic laminate, digitally printed with black squares at 3 cm spacing. Golden medal at the M.I.A. International Exhibition 1971 - NYCxDesign Awards 2022 Honoree. Collection: Israel Museum, Jerusalem - Museum fu¨r Angewandte Kunst, Köln - Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin - Kunstmuseum, Du¨sseldorf - Denver Art...

Round coffee table in lacquered wood with lamp in the middle. The table can turn on itself. Wear due to time and age of the table.

Original Superstudio table Quaderna from Zanotta, produced circa 1970-1980 Rare iconic dining table designed by the Italian radical design group Superstudio, for Zanotta, 1970. Ta...

Superstudio for Zanotta, console table ‘Quaderna’, Italy, designed 1969 The Italian architecture and design group Superstudio (founded in 1966 by Adolfo Natalini and Cristiano Toraldo di Francia...

Quaderna Superstudio console for Zanotta, 1970s.

A low round-shaped coffee table model Bazaar with structure in white lacquered wood and ABS, the table presents an inner light implant. Designed by Superstudio and produced by Giovannetti in 1968, Italy. Literature: AA. VV. Dal cucchiaio alla città nell'itinerario di 100 designers, p. 192, Electa, 1983. Superstudio was an avant-garde architecture and design collective founded in 1966 in Florence, Italy by Adolfo Natalini and Cristiano Toraldo di Francia. Other members included Roberto and Alessandro Magris, Piero Frassinelli and Alessandro Poli. Their work consisted principally of photo-collages, films and exhibitions in which they used a radical Utopian approach to criticize the Modernist thinking in design and architecture. "In the beginning we designed objects for production, designs to be turned into wood and steel, glass and brick or plastic - then we produced neutral and usable designs, then finally negative utopias, forewarning images of the horrors which architecture was laying in store for us with its scientific methods for the perpetuation of existing models." This was how Superstudio described its work in a catalogue the group produced to accompany the 1973 exhibition Fragments From A Personal Museum at the Neue Galerie in Graz, Austria. Superstudio was then at the fulcrum of avant garde thinking in architecture and design. Ever since it first surfaced in 1966 at the Superarchitecture exhibition in the Italian town of Pistoia, Superstudio challenged the modernist orthodoxies that had dominated architectural thinking for decades. By questioning architecture's ability to change the world for the better and the boundless faith in technology expressed by earlier, more optimistic groups such as Archigram in the UK, Superstudio raised issues which have preoccupied successive generations of architects and designers from Studio Alchymia in late 1970s Italy and to the Memphis collective in the mid-1980s, to contemporary figures like Rem Koolhaas and Foreign Office Architects. In the early days Superstudio clung to the conventional wisdom that architecture could be a powerful – and positive – force for progress. By 1968, the group had dismissed this notion as improbably optimistic. The following year Superstudio unveiled The Continuous Monument project in which the apparently endless framework of a black-on-white grid - which was to become the group's best known motif - extends across the earth’s surface in a critique of what Superstudio saw as the absurdities of contemporary urban planning. The group created photo-collages to show the grid cloaking the Rocky Coast, Coketown and Manhattan. In 1970, Superstudio then revived the grid – its "neutral surface" – in a collection of furniture manufactured by the Italian company Zanotta. Designed in stark, geometric forms and covered in the ABET plastic laminate traditionally associated with cheap cafés and 1950s coffee bars, its Quaderna tables...