Work, work, work.
Our time is inevitably punctuated by more or less repeated
gestures. Sometimes mechanical, sometimes creative and
gratifying, they take up most of our day.
On looking at the various aspects of our everyday life, it seemed
natural to focus on work, its actions and relations in their diverse
possible declensions: work as manual effort, but also as
ingenuity and imagination; as solitary concentration or as the
profitable union of different energies.
True to our mission to propose invaluable flexible objects, this
year we present families of large meeting tables, modular
tables, veritable work surfaces and writing-desks. Without
forgetting game tables for recreation and socialization.
The group of designers who have worked with us for years –
Studio Irvine, art director, Jasper Morrison, Konstantin Grcic,
Naoto Fukasawa and Ross Lovegrove, with the addition of
Philippe Nigro – has once again interpreted that concept with
absolute originality, designing fresh and innovative objects to fit
the necessities of contemporary living. Expanding surfaces, in
contrast to diminishing thicknesses and silhouettes, pose a
technical challenge. Always met by the expertise and skills
passed down by our family.
The collection is presented in the Napoleonic hall of the Brera
Fine Arts Academy, one of Italy’s most renowned and time-
honoured schools of art. Thus we return to where our ancestors
studied the art of sculpture in the early twentieth century, in a
tribute to our origins and to Italian culture.
Working on marble
