Executive Desk Designed by Ico Parisi for Mim Roma, Italy, 1950s

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Executive Desk Designed by Ico Parisi for Mim Roma, Italy, 1950s

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Ico Parisi For MIM Roma Executive Desk, Italy, 1950s. Executive Desk Designed By Ico Parisi For MIM Roma Italy 1950s. A lovely 1950 presidential desk. Modernist, blond polished wood with steel inserts. The desk is in excellent original condition. The writing table is perfect for freely placing in the room and is incredibly decorative and a real eye-catcher. The desk accessories comprise a suspended three-drawer block with two drawer fronts accessible to its rear and a further single sliding tray to the underside of the desktop. Excellent good original condition with a lovely patina. Incredibly stylish, chic, and highly indicative of the Italian 1950s glamorous design period. This Italian desk would be an eye-catching addition to any interior, such as a screening room or office. It also perfectly fits in a hospitality or corporate location like a boutique hotel or luxury loft. When you choose for used mid-century design, you use what is already there, making it sustainable. You may not give the furniture a second, but even a third or fourth life. Mid-century design furniture is often a high-quality product that lasts several lives for a reason. Some furniture has a rich history, and the story is still visible or tangible with some. The signs of wear give a glimpse into the previous owner's life. Italian design by Ico Parisi for Mim, Rome Ico Parisi(1916-1996) architect, designer photographer. By the mid-1950s, Ico Parisi had become one of the most influential Italian furniture designers, with a unique Modern aesthetic that uses softwoods often shaped in wide undulating curves cut into boomerang-like shapes augmented by metal slats. MIM (Mobili Italiani Moderni) was a roman based furniture company that was an excellent and avant guardian which flourished in the 1950s and 1960s, cooperating with other major companies like Zanotta, Artflex, and Zanuso and working with the most talented designers of the time.

Creator:
Ico Parisi (Designer),MIM Roma (Manufacturer)
Dimensions:
Height: 28.35 in (72 cm)Width: 82.68 in (210 cm)Depth: 39.38 in (100 cm)
Style:
Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Metal,Wood
Place of Origin:
Italy
Period:
Mid-20th Century
Date of Manufacture:
1950s
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use. Very nice original condition with minor traces of use.
Seller Location:
Almelo, NL
Reference Number:
Seller: 43571stDibs: LU3696333855402

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Ico Parisi

Domenico “Ico” Parisi was one half of a prolific postwar design duo he comprised with his wife, Luisa. Their furniture designs are known for running the stylistic gamut, with celebrated mid-century modern pieces ranging from elegantly skeletal — like dramatic ebonized dining chairs — to plush and shapely, like the iconic 1951 Egg chair, in a plethora of materials.

The son of an art teacher father, Ico Parisi was exposed to art at an early age. Born in 1916 in the Sicilian capital of Palermo, he and his family moved to Como in 1925. There, the young Parisi would begin to develop his interest in architecture and design. After earning a degree as a building inspector in 1936 and working as a civil engineer, Parisi took on an apprenticeship in the studio of Giuseppe Terragni, the modernist, fascist Italian architect, pioneer of the Rationalist movement and creator of the iconic Casa del Fascio.

While working for Terragni, Parisi crossed paths with such contemporary design talents as Lucio Fontana, Bruno Munari and Pietro Lingeri, though he briefly moved away from design and architecture to explore photography and film. His artistic work would soon be interrupted, however, by the outbreak of World War II, during which he served at the front before returning to Como in 1943. There, he resumed work as a designer and architect, founding two architecture groups: the Alta Quota and the Gruppo Como.

Through his creative circles, Parisi met Luisa Aiani, a former student of the prolific architect and furniture designer Gio Ponti, who was affiliated with the Alta Quota. They married in 1947 and founded the studio La Ruota — a cross between a design firm and an intellectual salon — in Como shortly thereafter. In 1950, Parisi finally completed his architectural schooling, studying under the nationalist architect Alberto Sartoris at the Athenaeum Architecture School in Lausanne, Switzerland. He and Aiani began several decades of sophisticated output, designing curved sofas upholstered in yellow velvet and armchairs with slender mahogany frames for enduring Italian manufacturers such as Cassina and others.

Much like Charles and Ray Eames in America, the Parisis worked as a team and relied on experimentation in style and material for many of their designs. Ico Parisi died in Como in 1996.

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