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Arco desk system | Phillips, de Pury & Company
Estimated value: 6000-8000 US$
Reached Price : 7409 US$
Auction:
20-21st Century Design
Sales date: 2003-06-11
Location:
New York
Lot number: 180
Design
Studio BBPRYear 1959
Manufacturer Olivetti
Architonic id
4102921
Comprising large desk, typewriter table, table lamp, sideboard and filing cabinet together with a "Valentine" typewriter designed by Ettore Sottsass and Perry King, 1969 (6)
large desk: 26 x 345/8 x 707/8 in.
(66 x 88 x 180 cm)
Founded in 1932, Studio BBPR, formed by the initials of four Italian architects-designers-
Gian Luigi Banfi (1910-1945). Ludovico Belgioso (1909), Enrico Peressuti (1908-1976) and Ernesto Nathan Rogers (1909-1968), played a precursor role to postwar Italian design. Adherents of the rationalist movement, the members of the group worked for the requirements of industry with the idea that design has an important social task to accomplish.
During the fifties, BBPR intensified its
activities and had, in conjunction with its
contemporaries-the Castiglioni brothers, Gio Ponti and Ettore Sottsass among others, a major influence on Italian culture. Their creations concerned many different fields: building and furnishing of United Nations' Pavilion for Milan's Triennial in 1954, building of Valesco Tower in 1956, interior decoration for Olivetti in New York in 1954 and numerous private commissions.
large desk: 26 x 345/8 x 707/8 in.
(66 x 88 x 180 cm)
Founded in 1932, Studio BBPR, formed by the initials of four Italian architects-designers-
Gian Luigi Banfi (1910-1945). Ludovico Belgioso (1909), Enrico Peressuti (1908-1976) and Ernesto Nathan Rogers (1909-1968), played a precursor role to postwar Italian design. Adherents of the rationalist movement, the members of the group worked for the requirements of industry with the idea that design has an important social task to accomplish.
During the fifties, BBPR intensified its
activities and had, in conjunction with its
contemporaries-the Castiglioni brothers, Gio Ponti and Ettore Sottsass among others, a major influence on Italian culture. Their creations concerned many different fields: building and furnishing of United Nations' Pavilion for Milan's Triennial in 1954, building of Valesco Tower in 1956, interior decoration for Olivetti in New York in 1954 and numerous private commissions.
