Massimo Scolari Italian Solid Dark Painted Beech Wood Desk with Ebony Top
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Massimo Scolari Italian Solid Dark Painted Beech Wood Desk with Ebony Top
About the Item
- Creator:Massimo Scolari (Designer),Giorgetti S.p.A. (Manufacturer)
- Dimensions:Height: 28.94 in (73.5 cm)Width: 63 in (160 cm)Depth: 31.5 in (80 cm)
- Style:Modern (In the Style Of)
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- Date of Manufacture:circa 2015
- Production Type:New & Custom(Current Production)
- Estimated Production Time:Available Now
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- Seller Location:Mornico al Serio ( BG), IT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2595112955681
Massimo Scolari
In his role as art director and furniture designer for Italian furniture brand Giorgetti, architect, educator and painter Massimo Scolari spent over a decade producing so many imaginative, sculptural postmodern pieces that it’s easy to lose count. The Novi Ligure native has always had an eye for good design — he is an equally acclaimed painter with works in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, and has taught at Harvard University, Cornell University and the University of Cambridge.
In 1969, Scolari completed his studies in architecture and became a professor in 1973. He taught architecture history in Palermo and drawing at Venice’s Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia. From 1975 onward, Scolari was a visiting professor at many of the world’s top universities for nearly three decades while creating numerous installations for the La Biennale di Venezia and Milan Triennial.
Among Scolari’s notable furniture designs are the solid beechwood Spring swivel armchair, which is characterized by organic curves and has a backrest that features ebony insets, as well as the Erasmo and Zeno writing desks. Each piece offers innovative flourishes — the hidden spring in his armchair allows the sitter to lean back comfortably, which lends an unusual level of flexibility to the modern wooden seat, while his sleek writing desks are often outfitted with hidden drawers or secret pull-out compartments.
Scolari has exhibited across the United States. and Europe as well as in Russia and Japan. A retrospective of his work that featured over 100 paintings, drawings and architectural models was staged at the Cooper Union in 2012. For his distinct and creative contributions to architecture, Scolari was awarded the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York in 2014.
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