Name: Ico Parisi for Cassina Rosewood Coffee Table
Brand: Ico Parisi
Price: 3500 USD
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Ico Parisi for Cassina Rosewood Coffee Table

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About the Item

Ico Parisi for Cassina, cocktail table model 751, rosewood, glass, Italy, 1962 This coffee table is made from solid rosewood and executed with a glass top. The construction is created by means of assembling wooden parts with identical cross sections. The structure is formed by means of four double slatted legs that are connected via half wood joints. The glass version of this table has the effect that the whole construction is visible which emphasizes the structural character of this table. Ico Parisi (1916 - 1996) is one of the pioneers who helped shape postwar Italian design. Parisi is now known for fluent, curved and delicate simplified modern design. Although Parisi was experimental and innovative, he travelled along the path of design gradually, without sudden ruptures. In Italy, reform took place not in a new institute such as the Bauhaus, but in the sophisticated upperclass private spaces. Here paths cross of Ponti, Campigli, Melotti and also Ico and his wife Luisa. At the age of twenty Parisi graduates from the Istituto Tecnico G. Castellini as an Industrial Head Technician. According to Parisi himself, his first design dates from this date. He also starts to work as a painter and photographer before he has to work as a soldier in the war. His life really starts after the war when he meets his wife Luisa Aiani and when he joins the Broletto show. From here onwards his designs are recognized and exhibited and he starts to collaborate with MIM Roma in 1958 and Stildomus in 1959. In the 1970s Parisi designs many architectural projects under the concept of a new way of living. Literature: - Lietti, Roberta. Ico Parisi. Design. Catalogue Raisonné 1936 – 1960. Milan: SilvanaEditoriale, 2017, p. 549.

Creator:
Ico Parisi (Designer)
Dimensions:
Height: 13.78 in (35 cm)Width: 51.97 in (132 cm)Depth: 22.45 in (57 cm)
Style:
Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Glass,Wood
Place of Origin:
Italy
Period:
1960-1969
Date of Manufacture:
1962
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use. This table by Parisi has been checked thoroughly, both art historically and technically by the in-house experts.
Seller Location:
Waalwijk, NL
Reference Number:
Seller: 9095_90621stDibs: LU933112791852

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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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