ANGELO MANGIAROTTI
Angelo Mangiarotti was born in Milan, Italy in 1921. He was an architect, urban planner, and designer whose designs earned him awards in Italy and abroad.
Angelo Mangiarotti graduated from the Architecture School of Politecnico di Milano in 1948. He moved to the United States in 1953 and started working in Chicago as a visiting professor for the Illinois Institute of Technology. During his time at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Mangiarotti met Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Konrad Wachsmann, all of whom were instrumental in his personal and professional growth.
Two years later, Mangiarotti returned to Italy and opened his own architectural firm in Milan with Bruno Morassutti. The partnership was active until 1960.
Angelo Mangiarotti
In Incas only the two inclined planes bear the stresses due to the weight of the plan, while the vertical ones do not collaborate in the construction system. Incas is now also available in other stone materials and with suitable finishes, today for the first time it finds an unprecedented and sophisticated solution in solid wood, demonstrating how every great idea can be further developed without losing strength and meaning.
Angelo Mangiarotti
Loico is a program of interlocking bookcases with modular measures both in height and in width, an impressive result of Mangiarotti's research on materials and technologies.
Angelo Mangiarotti
A seat characterized by a cantilevered top supported by a central support. Sinuous and streamlined, Clizia appears in contrast with the hardness and static nature of the stone material from which it is obtained. A carefully calibrated sign, which refers in complexity to some studies by Escher, makes the upper profile of the seat coincide with the lower one, so that the monolithic bodies of the "Clizia" are made from the same block of marble through a single cut, made with machines. numerical control, which simultaneously defines two sessions, optimizing the material, after having reduced waste to a minimum. The concrete version has now been added to the original marble version. Indoor or outdoor seat made of white Carrara marble, black Marquina marble or fiber-reinforced concrete with oxidized iron base.
Angelo Mangiarotti
A furnishing system made entirely of wood, imagined and patented more than fifty years ago, and which still has not ceased to amaze for the versatility and functionality it offers. Much loved at the time of its debut, published by the main international magazines of the time, present in many designer furnishings of those years, the “Cavalletto” system returns to new life today.
Angelo Mangiarotti
In Incas only the two inclined planes bear the stresses due to the weight of the plan, while the vertical ones do not collaborate in the construction system. Incas is now also available in other stone materials and with suitable finishes, today for the first time it finds an unprecedented and sophisticated solution in solid wood, demonstrating how every great idea can be further developed without losing strength and meaning.
Angelo Mangiarotti
In M, form and elegant solution design an extremely stable table, the first example in Mangiarotti's work of using marble for the construction of furnishing objects for the domestic environment. The M marbles are offered with a particular finish that best enhances the characteristics of the stone material, caressing and supporting the rounded profiles of this “sculpture” for the interior architecture of exemplary proportions.
Angelo Mangiarotti
In the Tre 3 project, a sheet of leather is inserted into the higher rear leg which gently draws the backrest and seat as it descends. A reinterpretation of a type of chair already reinterpreted on other occasions by the protagonists of Nordic design, the "3T" brings Angelo Mangiarotti closer to the work of another great master of the twentieth century, Carlo Scarpa, whose lesson influenced all the authors who saw in the attention to the details a universe to be explored and honored.
Angelo Mangiarotti
A system of marble tables as a milestone in research into interlocking furniture without joints or locks: for the "Eros" tables the construction solution involves a gravity joint between the top and the leg, obtained thanks to the truncated conical section of the itself.
Angelo Mangiarotti
An armchair with an admittedly architectural flavor, still highly expressive and happily functional today. Here the classic inverted V design, which characterizes the system, becomes the profile of a leg at the top of which the armrest finds an ideal support point, in an overall profile that helps to streamline this small domestic presence, making it even more elegant, dry and austere: in a word, distilled from over fifty years of sedimentation, absolute.
Angelo Mangiarotti
While working on prefabricated concrete elements that can be produced on an industrial scale for architecture, with witty intelligence, Mangiarotti chooses the ancient technique of "lost wax" casting for the construction of his first bronze table. Used mainly in the making of sculptures, this particular technique makes each piece unique as the mold must be destroyed to extract the product of the casting.
Angelo Mangiarotti
A system of marble tables as a milestone in research into interlocking furniture without joints or locks: for the "Eros" tables the construction solution involves a gravity joint between the top and the leg, obtained thanks to the truncated conical section of the itself.
Angelo Mangiarotti
The Asolo table investigates the exceptional resistance qualities of the stone material, used here as the only construction material. When you don't get to “minimal” by following fashion but through knowledge of the material, always ahead of style issues.
Angelo Mangiarotti
A few years after the project of the SK207 table, convinced by the mechanical characteristics and the high corrosion resistance of the material, Angelo Mangiarotti returns to work with bronze. With the CAP53 series of vases, the ancient technique of "lost wax" casting returns to its original field of application, the creation of sculptures.
Angelo Mangiarotti
In More, at the upper end, at the point of contact with the top, the section of the leg becomes truncated cone, and offers itself to the joint with the top, substantially re-proposing the solution experimented with the "Eros" table, that of the "joint to severity".
Angelo Mangiarotti
In More, at the upper end, at the point of contact with the top, the section of the leg becomes truncated cone, and offers itself to the joint with the top, substantially re-proposing the solution experimented with the "Eros" table, that of the "joint to severity".
Angelo Mangiarotti
A system of marble tables as a milestone in research into interlocking furniture without joints or locks: for the "Eros" tables the construction solution involves a gravity joint between the top and the leg, obtained thanks to the truncated conical section of the itself.
