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Italian Executive Frau Desk " Artu' President Desk" by Michele De Lucchi, 2006

$5,740.31

$7,175.3920% Off

£4,244.85

£5,306.0720% Off

€4,800

€6,00020% Off

CA$7,943.73

CA$9,929.6720% Off

A$8,840.73

A$11,050.9120% Off

CHF 4,602.69

CHF 5,753.3720% Off

MX$106,761.23

MX$133,451.5420% Off

NOK 57,722.02

NOK 72,152.5220% Off

SEK 54,522.08

SEK 68,152.6020% Off

DKK 36,560.06

DKK 45,700.0820% Off

About the Item

A studied and flexible system for furnishing management offices, meeting and board rooms. Artù uses high quality leather and wood, handcrafted with typical Poltrona Frau quality and attention to detail. The collection includes conference tables, meeting tables, desks and cabinets providing a wide range of furniture for a modern management office. The Meeting Table tops simply rest on a steel beam connected to the legs. The President Desk is the most sophisticated of the Artù range. Although it uses the same mounting system as the shelves, it boasts a wider top, covered in leather and lightly padded, with two openings to allow the passage of cables. The Executive Desk top is fixed directly onto the beams. The shelves are supported by two aluminum legs with a gray finish or covered in leather, equipped with a bridge base to ensure greater stability. The cylindrical legs of all Artù furnishings are equipped with a support ring tapered, the table legs can also accommodate a modern cable management system. The tops are finished in wenge, the tops are always edged in leather. Design Michele De Lucchi: Michele De Lucchi (1951-) is one of the most important contemporary Italian designers. His artistic trajectory emblematically summarizes the trajectory of Italian design in recent decades: born in Ferrara, during his university years he was one of the leaders of the student protest and participated in the front row of an occupation of the Milan Triennale. Standard bearer of radical design, he was strongly influenced by the figure of Ettore Sottsass, who he would follow in his experimental experiences with Studio Alchimia and with the Memphis collective, of which he is one of the founding members. His creations of the period are characterized by bold colors and deconstructed shapes, as in the famous First chair. At the same time he approached big industry, establishing a close collaboration with Olivetti. At the end of the 1980s he designed one of the most successful products in the history of Italian design, the Tolomeo lamp for Artemide (co-signed with Giancarlo Fassina), which led him to win his first Compasso d'Oro in 1989. It was just the beginning: three more followed in the decades to come, alongside collaborations with the most prestigious Italian brands such as Alessi, Alias, Molteni & C., Cassina, Riva 1920, De Castelli, Listone Giordano Poltrona Frau and many others. He also founded his own brand, Produzione Privata, dedicated to the limited series production of simple and precious furnishings. In parallel his studio develops an appreciated international activity in the field of architecture, creating works such as the Unicredit Pavillion in Milan or the Peace Bridge in Tbilisi.

Creator:

Poltrona Frau (Manufacturer),Michele de Lucchi (Designer)

Dimensions:

Height: 28.75 in (73 cm)Width: 90.56 in (230 cm)Depth: 43.31 in (110 cm)

Style:

Modern (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Aluminum,Leather,Steel,Wood

Place of Origin:

Italy

Period:

2000-2009

Date of Manufacture:

2006

Condition:

Wear consistent with age and use.

Seller Location:

Traversetolo, IT

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU2964342437132

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If an Italian soldier named Renzo Frau had never traveled to Great Britain and set eyes on a Chesterfield armchair, it is unlikely that legendary handcrafted furniture maker Poltrona Frau and its classic sofas, armchairs and vanities would exist today.

Upon completing his service in the Italian army during the early 1900s, the Sardinian-born Frau worked for faux leather manufacturing company Dermoide Patent in Turin. While at the firm, he was sent to England, where he became enamored with leather Chesterfield armchairs. Intrigued and inspired by their rolled arms and tall, imposing profile, Frau returned to Turin, where he started his own leather-upholstered furniture company, Poltrona Frau, in 1912. He began to import the sumptuous Edwardian seating for the high-end domestic market.

Frau made slight modifications to the English seat that he’d so admired, and among Poltrona Frau’s first successful designs was an iconic armchair in 1919 appropriately called the Chester. Believed to have been custom-made for Filiberto Ludovico of Savoy, Duke of Pistoia, the Chester reflected the era’s emerging Art Deco style. Frau’s chair was comfortable and functional, and he implemented the traditional upholstery technique capitonné, which refers to stuffing that is buttoned. The Chester featured a pouf and an arm that was possibly included to hold the Duke’s ashtray. The seat’s high-quality craftsmanship and integration of exquisite full-grain leather made it covetable among Italy’s elite.

When Renzo Frau died in 1926, Poltrona Frau was appointed furniture supplier to Italy’s royal family. The company furnished grand hotels, designed the interiors for Expo Turin 1928 and outfitted an Italian transatlantic ocean liner.

For more than a century, Poltrona Frau has collaborated with hundreds of leading architects and designers from around the world. It issued such iconic mid-century modern pieces as Gio Ponti’s Dezza armchair, the 1960s-era Dilly Dally vanity by Italian designer Luigi Massoni, stackable tubular steel Movie armchairs by Italian architect Mario Marenco and French architect Jean-Marie Massaud’s sleek, angular Kennedee office sofa.

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