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Tense low table
Architonic ID: 20216222
Year of Launch: 2021
Designed by Piergiorgio and Michele Cazzaniga in 2009, the Tense represents the archetypal table. Characterised by the consistency of its form and finishes, it is an icon of lightness and flexibility; thanks to its internal tension, it can also be extended to a total of 4 metres in length. Part of the MDF Italia collection, the Tense family is now available in 16 finishes, 5 heights and 36 sizes.
For The Principle of Lightness Collection, the Tense has been reimagined in a hand polished aluminium finish and measures 100x240cm.
Concept
A table with a monochromatic finish.
The important technological innovation it incorporates, combined with the tensioning capacity of the components, makes it possible to build tabletops in large sizes which remain perfectly flat and also extremely light.
Frame and tabletops
A table available in the versions:
- matt white, made of acrylic resin and rock minerals.
Tabletop, edges and legs covered with a 3mm thick sheet of resin.
- matt black and medium grey acrylic resin and FENIX high-pressure stratified laminate of the latest generation.
Tabletop in stratified laminate with mass colouration; edges and legs in acrylic resin and rock minerals.
The 35mm thick tabletop is a load-bearing composite board built with an internal frame consisting of either aluminium profiles and polystyrene filler (matt white version), or an acrylic resin honeycomb and two outer layers of aluminium (matt black or medium grey version).
35x35mm steel legs with internal structural tie.
The acrylic resin coating is in the same matt colours as the tabletop.
Dimensions
The Tense table is an icon of the MDF Italia collection, a project which develops and evolves in terms of its own TENSITY.
At Imm 2019, the table evolves and becomes a collection, almost a system, with the introduction of new heights and dimensions.
Today Tense, together with Tense Material and Tense Intarsia, comes in:
- 5 heights (H35, H45, H73, H90, H110)
- 36 sizes
- 12 finishes
- 170 types
- around 1584 variants
Accessories
The table is also available in a version equipped with 1 or 2 openings and an undertop tray. The openings in size 350 or 420mm are in aluminium.
A steel spring can be inserted into the pre-drilled holes (every 50cm) at the bottom of the undertop tray to group the cables on the floor together.
Finishes:
- matt white lacquer with tables in matt white
- matt black lacquer with tables in black, and medium grey.
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Born in 1946. He graduated from ISPMA in Lissone in interior design and attended various courses at the Milan Polytechnic. In 1964 for two years he worked as the Technical Department Manager at BESANA Mobili, where he directly experienced and mastered furnishing industrial production cycles and techniques. In 1966 Dino Boffi appointed him as Research and Development Department Manager at BOFFI Cucine. For five years he took part in the European standardisation process of sizes in cabinets and built-in household appliances for kitchens. Among his works, the kitchen “E15”, the wardrobe “A1” and the kitchen “XILA”. He played a leading role in Image and Communication, he dealt with products presentation through photograph settings, the creation of display areas and of the so-called “Spazi Boffi” inside shops and through the organization of different exhibitions. In 1971 he became a partner at the Buttura, Massoni, Pelizza Studio, which was then transformed into an A&D. With Luigi Massoni he designed for leading Italian furnishing companies such as : BOFFI Cucine POLTRONA FRAU NAZARENO GABRIELLI ITER SELENOVA CADEL MATTEO GRASSi POLIFORM PORRO Industria Mobili Among his own notable works: - LIVING DIVANI A series of armchairs and settees “COVER”, the bent plywood small armchair with internal covering “BLOOM” - PORRO Industria Mobili The unit system “SYSTEM”, the wardrobes “REFLEX”, panelling system to be equipped in aluminium “ABACUS”, the shelf system “SLIDER”. - POZZI chairs The chairs and tables “QUARTETT”, the chair “GARBO” completely in sandwich panel - COMPOSIT CUCINE: “MODULUS”, “DIAPASON”, “DIAMOND”, “YOKO”, “NAONIS”, “WOOD”, “PRATICA”, “GIULIA”, “LOGICA”, “TECNA”, “TECNA-CHEF”, “ACTIVA”, and “MASTER” - ATLANTIS: “AVION”, a chair completely made from 1.5mm plywood; “MARIPOSA”, “Award Top-Ten” and “Chair of the year” in 1995 at “International Chair Show”, Udine. Special jury award “Bio 15” in Lubjana. “LEADER”: a stackable chair in bent plywood. Exhibitions and photographs - MOBILGIRGI The furnishing units “TUTTOCAMPO”, “MODEM”, and the “RIO” beds, the chair “FELICIA”, Booths and Art Director - CAIMI EXPORT “CD HOLDER” in aluminium profiles - CAIMI DUE The aluminium profile system “ BANCO “, a series of aluminium hoods “TORRE “, the vertical opening system “ SINCRONO “ - SALICE A project for a kitchen and a wardrobe for the presentation of the System “Sesamo” at the “IMM” in Cologne in 2000 - DEMA The armchairs, sofas and coffee tables “BENT”; The sofas “SMOOTH” ; the coffee tables “DECK” ; the single seats “LIPS”. - TAGLIABUE The tables, small tables, coffee tables, chairs, small armchairs, and footrest “SKID”; the stackable chair “FOLD”. - LIVIT An aluminium tower for TV HI-FI system. - ACERBIS The chairs “SMILLA”and “AIRY”. - MDF The chair M1. In 1991 he set up his own practice “PIERGIORGIO CAZZANIGA DESIGN” in Lentate sul Seveso, dealing mainly with furnishing design, booth, shop and showroom design, art direction and specific consultancies.