Zanotta Dressers

Signed original. Lacquered wood frame with hand painted polychrome decoration. Handles in natural anodized aluminum. Drawer interiors in grey lacquered wood. Designed by Alessandro M...

Signed original. Upper frame, lower drawer top and feet veneered in open pore dark brown painted ash. Lower frame and drawers in polished pear-wood. Handles in brass. Designed by Ett...

Nine originals numbered and signed. Frame and feet in wood, polychrome inlay. Handles in red anodized aluminum. Drawer interiors in natural beech. Each series features a different color sequence of the wooden inlays placed on the right side of the cabinet. Designed by Alessandro Mendini in 1985/1988. Featured in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts collection. Only a prolific and generous, educated and sensitive and conceptually very daring author such as Alessandro Mendini could devote so many of his thoughts to a class of furniture that is usually left out, by designers as well as by critics: the chest of drawers. This object has deep and historically well-established roots, between aristocracy and bourgeoisie, but in more recent times it still manages to bring back memories for all of us, as it was usually to be found among family furniture that we used to see in our grandparents’ houses. Since he redesigned it in 1978, when he transformed a 1940s piece of furniture thanks to a painting inspired by Kandinsky, Mendini has rethought this very functional object on several occasions, such as with Calamobio, a multicolor surprise of pixels/wooden inlays, and with Cetonia, a dynamic Neo-Futurist varnishing on a curvy and spacious container: they both rely on unique craftsmen’s knowledge, which is the main feature of the Zanotta Edizioni...

Signed original. Wooden frame veneered in walnut-root in various colors. Cast bronze handles represent the Genesis. Designed by Alik Cavaliere in 1990. Alik Cavaliere’s pieces are...