Alanda Metal and Glass Coffee Table by Paolo Piva for B&B Italia, 1970s

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Alanda Metal and Glass Coffee Table by Paolo Piva for B&B Italia, 1970s

About

The Alanda coffee table, an iconic piece that ushered in the 1980s, is reissued as a tribute to Paolo Piva, the great architect and designer. A highly successful classic and one of the most popular vintage furnishing accessories on the market, Alanda is one of the most representative design objects of an era full of strong and audacious stylistic signs, very often in dialogue with architecture, of which the design replicated virtuosity in miniature. And the Alanda grid, at the same time pedestal and support for the top, recalls precisely a group of inverted pyramids, a geodesic structure that has always characterized it as if it were a magical object, a catalyst for positive energy. Paolo Piva was born in Adria on March 13, 1950 and passed away on July 7, 2017, a famous Italian architect and designer known throughout the world for his creations in the field of furniture. In Italy he collaborates with major design companies including B & B Italia. from this collaboration will be born the iconic table with an inverted pyramid structure Alanda. B&B Italia S.p.A. is an Italian company founded in 1966 in Novedrate, a manufacturer of furniture, furnishings and other objects for the home. The B&B Italia furniture company was born in 1966, with the name C&B Italia, from the meeting of Cesare Cassina and Piero Ambrogio Busnelli; the latter in 1973 will also buy the shares of Cassina building what at the time was considered the most automated furniture factory in the world, as well as a sophisticated research and development laboratory. The intent to combine design and technology is clear from the architecture of the B&B Italia headquarters in Novedrate (Como): a modern headquarters designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers in 1972.

Details

Creator:
Paolo Piva (Designer),B&B Italia (Manufacturer)
Dimensions:
Height: 12.21 in (31 cm)Width: 31.5 in (80 cm)Depth: 31.5 in (80 cm)
Style:
Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Glass,Metal
Place of Origin:
Italy
Period:
1970-1979
Date of Manufacture:
1970s
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use.
Seller Location:
Padova, IT
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU6345234572852

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B&B Italia

In 1966, Piero Ambrogio Busnelli cofounded C&B Italia, a modern Italian furniture manufacturer, with Cesare Cassina in northern Milan. From the outset, Busnelli and Cassina set about recruiting the most talented modernists in Italy to conceive of creative furnishings manufactured in modern ways. In the early 1970s, the company split, with Cassina founding his own eponymous firm and Busnelli taking leadership of what became B&B Italia.

For decades, Busnelli cultivated relationships with the world’s best design talent, resulting in furniture pieces that remain iconic today — be they Gaetano Pesce’s outwardly curvaceous Up seating (made for C&B, reintroduced by B&B) or tables from industrial designer Paolo Piva, each more sophisticated than the next in their geometrically complex steel-tube bases. B&B Italia earned four prestigious Compasso d’Oro design awards: in 1979 for Mario Bellini’s Le Bambole, in 1984 for the Sisamo wardrobe system by Studio Kairos, in 1987 for Antonio Citterio’s modular Sity sofa and, in 1989, the first award given to a manufacturing company itself.

Other notable names who designed for B&B Italia over the course of its 54-year history include Patricia Urquiola, Naoto Fukasawa, Zaha Hadid, Ettore Sottsass and Vincent Van Duysen, to name a very few. And while these names bring star power to the B&B brand, in many cases, it was B&B Italia who helped usher in their celebrity, fostering a wave of design talent on the world stage.

The company’s forward-thinking vision manifested in its own headquarters, too: In 1972, B&B Italia tapped architects Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers to design a steel-framed, postmodern-style home for the brand, whose crisscrossing metal exoskeleton is reminiscent of the pair’s Centre Pompidou in Paris, which was built at roughly the same time. Now, B&B Italia manages a contract division and outdoor section as well as its residential arm, and it also controls production for Maxalto, a brand spun out with furniture designs by Antonio Citterio.

At 1stDibs, find a range of vintage B&B Italia furniture — including sofas, cocktail tables and more.