Rare and important African rosewood sideboard belonging to the series “S11 Programme”, one of the most emblematic of Angelo Mangiarotti's work for La Sorgente del Mobile in Arosio, created in the early Sixties.
The series “S11 Program” represents a turning point in the history of Italian furniture: a modular collection designed for contemporary homes, based on an essential and architectural language, where every technical and construction detail becomes an expressive element.
In this project Mangiarotti translates the principles of his architectural thought —balance, structural logic, sincerity of materials — into a perfectly calibrated domestic form.
The sideboard is characterized by the pure horizontal volume, marked by three doors and a column of four drawers with hollowed handles made from solid wood, a distinctive sign that expresses the desire to eliminate any decorative frill in favor of a functional and integral design.
The proportions are harmonious and balanced, the absence of metallic or applied elements accentuates the continuity of the surfaces, and the deep and warm grain of the African rosewood gives the piece of furniture a sculptural presence of great elegance.
Created by La Sorgente del Mobile, an Arosio company among the most sensitive to the architectural and material experimentation of the 1960s, this sideboard “S11 Programme” reflects the close connection between rational design and high Brianza cabinet-making.
The result is an object of extraordinary purity and rigor, capable of synthesizing the essence of Italian modernism: sober, refined, structurally intelligent and at the same time full of a unique plastic presence.
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