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Totem | rr231-Nero
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Architonic ID: 20723268
Designed in 1971 by Mario Bellini, totem is a celebration of the primary and elementary forms that make up and regulate our physical world. An ode to geometric regularity that comes at the end of a long meditation on form and function.
A simple white cuboid that opens up and is reconfigured in a sophisticated Hi-Fi listening machine with two speakers that open to reveal the stereo module, radio and turntable.
Wooden handcrafted cabinet, Rests on a cart with forged aluminum wheels, 125+125W audio amplifier with auto-limitation, AM/FM Radio, 2 RCA audio jacks for external sources, 1 RCA audio output for connecting to an external amplification system, 1 RCA audio output for connecting to an external subwoofer, 1 3.5 millimetre preamp audio jack for headphones, Project turntable with Ortofon cartridge
Concept
The iconic totem, signed in 1971 by the designer Mario Bellini, is re-proposed today renovated and equipped with the best contemporary technology.
Wood
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Italy
Internationally renowned as an architect and designer, winner among others of 8 Compasso d’Oro and prestigious architecture awards including the Medaglia d’Oro conferred on him by the President of the Italian Republic. He has given talks in the greatest centres of culture in the world and was editor of Domus. His work can be found in the Collections of major Art Museums. MoMA in New York, which dedicated a personal exhibition to him, has 25 works of his in its Permanent Design Collection. He has had countless exhibitions in his name in Italy and abroad. From the 1980s onwards, he has designed projects such as the Portello Trade Fair quarter in Milan, the Exhibition Centre in Villa Erba on Lake Como, the Tokyo Design Center in Japan, Natuzzi America Headquarters in the USA, the Trade Fair in Essen in Germany, and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. Projects getting under way at present include the new Cultural Centre in Turin, the only example of its kind of a public library in Italy; and the renovation and restyling of Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan.
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