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Rocking chair in wood PS16
Machine gun floor lamp
Mobile radio in crystal securit
Tavolo TL3
LB10 library
Sailing Ship Library
Fiorenza armchair
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Luisa armchair
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Easel table TL2

Franco Albini

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Franco Albini Foundation

Franco Albini Foundation

Via Telesio, 13, Milan

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The Cavalletto table was presented for the first time in 1948 in Milan for the exhibition The style of modern furniture organized by Fede Cheti. In this version, however, the characteristic brass rod bracing appears reversed compared to the final version. Reported to the Compasso d’oro, this table has as its main feature that of looking like a temporary object, which can be dismantled and folded quickly, almost for display use. The elegance of the profiles and details of the definitive version of 1950, produced by the Poggi company, highlights once again how thin the boundary was between the language of lightness and of setting up, with scrupulousness and technical and formal attention. by Franco Albini for the development of a design object. The final structure was in solid ash or rosewood, with a steel bracing; the shelf was sometimes provided with a wool cloth cover.
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Title: Easel table TL2

Author: Franco Albini

Date: 1950

Technique: Wood

Displayed in: Franco Albini Foundation

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