Estimated value: 3000-4000 GBP
Auction:
Designed by Architects
Sales date: 2003-10-08
Location:
London
Lot number: 73
Design
Ico & Luisa Parisi
Architonic id
4102515
Designed circa 1950, walnut, the stretcher with abstract carved motifs attributed to Vittorio Tavernari.
331⁄4in. (84.5cm.) height; 79in. (201cm.) width; 353⁄4in. (91cm. ) depth.
Lit: Irene de Guttry & Maria Paola Maino, Il Mobile Italiano degli anni '40 e '50, Rome, 1992, p.223 (illustration of desk exhibited at the IX Triennale di Milano, 1951, showing similar carving to case)