Bookcase | Prototype

A prototype of a curved wood bookcase, which was complex workmanship for the time. was designed by Japanese designer Yasuhiko ltoh and never put into production. To make the prototype, ltoh spent severa I months in Giussano. working closely with craftspeo­ple. Unveiled in 1959 with a chaise longue, at the third "Mostra Selettiva - Concorso Internazionale del Mobi­le" in Cantù. the bookcase prototype won third piace.