Consiglio

Table

Aldo Rossi, 1991

Originally planned for Rossi’s studio in Via Santa Maria alla Porta, in Milan, Consiglio is a square or rectangular wooden table of large dimensions. Like most of the furniture designed by the Milanese architect-designer, this too is an essential architectural work that becomes “domestic” when its proportions are reduced, without, however, losing its own monumentality.

Design Aldo Rossi, 1991

The legs are rectangular prisms with rounded edges, slightly recessed in relation to the top, with its tall edges. Wood is the only material of which it is made (american cherry or maple). Its special structural conception allows it to be easily extended beyond its three-meter length.

Consiglio was re-edited in 2021 within the ARCHIVIOUNIFOR collection.

Design

Aldo Rossi

Aldo Rossi (Milan, May 3, 1931 - Milan, September 4, 1997) was one of the greatest Italian architects of the 1980’s. His Molteni Group collaboration marked his passage from masterful architect to an industrial designer. He created models and furnishings for the Museum of Maastricht, the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and the reconstruction of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice. Aldo Rossi designed items that were destined to become icons of the 20th century.

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“Perhaps it is snobbery but the more I see the world, the more I feel being a citizen of it and the more I want to go back to the old way of things”

Aldo Rossi