Beruflich Dokumente
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Designed 1940
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The Veliero bookcase, an icon amidst the Italian design hallmarks, was The bookcase consists of two pillars in ashwood with brass tip ends. 0.15 stainless
created by Franco Albini as a one-off prototype in 1940 for his home in steel tie rods. Anchoring elements of the rods are in burnished iron with the central
Milan. Like almost no other project, this piece epitomizes a fundamental rods in polished brass. The shelves are made of tempered 0.12+0.12 stratified
concept of the Milanese designer: lightness. Highly experimental, the safety glass. Shelf supports in ashwood with polished brass ends. Diagonal
tensile structure of the Veliero is a combination of technique and poetry, reinforcing tie rods for the shelves in polished brass. The base is in steel with the
exploiting the technical characteristics of the materials to the full potential. covering panels in ashwood.
The concept of unstable equilibrium is reached through apparent simplicity
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Cassina USA Inc.
200 McKay Road
Huntington Station
New York 11746
telephone 631 423 4560
telefax 631 423 5245
Cassina S.p.A. 2011 www.cassinausa.com
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and the reduction to a minimum of components.
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838
Cassina USA Inc.
200 McKay Road
Huntington Station
New York 11746
telephone 631 423 4560
telefax 631 423 5245
Cassina S.p.A. 2011 www.cassinausa.com
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and the reduction to a minimum of components.
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15
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16.1
21.8
80.9
838
Cassina USA Inc.
200 McKay Road
Huntington Station
New York 11746
telephone 631 423 4560
telefax 631 423 5245
Cassina S.p.A. 2011 www.cassinausa.com