Claude console

Design by Duccio Maria Gambi
“”If I say ‘On the Trestle’, what comes to Your mind?” In literature, the term Trestle (Trespolo), which derives from the Latin ‘tripes-pĕdis’ meaning “three feet,” is used metaphorically to symbolize the base or foundation of something. The term evokes an image of a wooden object , or more precisely, the most supreme of all wooden Objects (with a capital O), followed only by the table, which, for production purposes, requires both wood and a trestle. The result is a heterogeneous collection of unconventional furnishing accessories, dreamed and dreamy objects.

Summer, sun, joy, slow life. Colors blend, bright transparencies and brilliant opacities, sharp shadows that interrupt and seal entities outside and around. Everything melts and merges into a suspended memory that finds its necessity in contrast with what surrounds it and, solidly, supports it. Can one smell all this on a pedestal? It is in this light imagery that “Claude” was born: a collection of shelves and consoles in Murano glass with fluid and luminous shapes, supported by massive and geometric blocks of reclaimed Canaletto walnut. The title is an homage to the photographer Claude Nori, that has taken many pictures of Italy in summertime in 1982. The Murano glass fused from sheet recalls the texture, brilliance, and transparency of melting icicles. The wooden blocks are made of Canaletto walnut reclaimed from a small forest of twenty-one walnut trees on the banks of the Seveso river, which required deforestation due to the construction of more containing embankments.

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