Metafora #1 - A coffee table conceived in the United States by Lella and Massimo Vignelli and made in Italy by Maurizio Casigliani, this system of elements (a glass top and four marble supports with Euclidean geometry) to be assembled into a low table was first presented to the public at the autumn Macef and immediately afterwards at the Milan Furniture Fair in September 1979. Immortalised on the cover of "Casa Vogue" in November of the same year, it soon became a best-seller of the nascent Casigliani brand dedicated to furnishing objects, of which Metafora "anticipates and already contains some constant production features" (Pier Carlo Santini). In particular for the explicit search for "solutions that are not too precarious in terms of taste" aimed at "enhancing" the properties of marble as a "durable material par excellence" (Pier Carlo Santini). The four solids, clearly visible under the glass top, are like pieces in a witty and bizarre game. Elements in play whose free arrangement is constrained only by gravity and the laws of statics. All the supports could be made of a single quality of marble, but also of different qualities, variously combined and combinable. The four now-canonical versions of the Metafora are: the three single-material versions in Bianco di Carrara marble, Nero Marquinia marble, Travertino marble, and...
Here is the 'historical' combination with the pyramid in Bianco di Carrara marble (P. Bianco marble), the cube in Nero Marquinia marble, the cylinder in Travertino marble and the sphere in Mondragone or Rasotica marble (now Emperador Dark).
Originally there were at least 3 dimensional variants of the glass surface: rectangular (120 x 80 x 2 cm); small rectangular (100 x 65 x 2 cm); large square (120 x 120 x 2 cm). The maximum height of the solids as a cylinder diameter was 20 cm, while the diameter of the sphere was slightly less (19.8/19.9 cm). Dimensions of the solids: cube: 20 x 20 x 20 [h] cm; pyramid: 20 x 20 x 20 [h] cm; cylinder: 20 [Ø] x 20 [h] cm; sphere: 19.8/19.9 [Ø] cm; solid weight: 17/22 kg.
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SILVER Seller in Modena, Italy
