Gae Aulenti Tavolo
The tavolo con ruote is made of a float ground glass top 15 mm thick and industrial wheels with black painted metal brackets.
Gae aulenti tavolo. It is a specimen of intuitive design that skips the drawing board stage and goes straight from the idea of an everyday item to the prototype stage. The famous tavolo con ruote designed by gae aulenti in 1980 is one of the best known most iconic fontanaarte products on show in a large number of museums including the permanent collection at the museum of modern art in new york and the centre pompidou in paris. Tour è un tavolo disegnato da gae aulenti per fontana arte.
Designed by gae aulenti for fontanaarte in 1980 tavolo con ruote is a coffee table that plays with industrial aesthetics and modern minimalism. Il piano in vetro float molato dello spessore di 15 mm poggia su 4 ruote pivottanti mediante quattro piattelli in acciaio inox. This was the object that inspired gae aulenti to design her tavolo con ruote.
Tavolo con ruote table with wheels by fontanaarte is a design icon created by gae aulenti. Tavolo con ruote is among the selected products by the moma in. An industrial trolley used at the fontanaarte plant to transport glass.
The wooden top was replaced with a thick slab of glass symbol of the company s production history to which free moving industrial castors were fixed. It is an essential object in which an industrial element like the wheels has been utilizied in an unrelated context. Dotato anch esso di ruote in questo caso di bicicletta è un pezzo sorprendente.
Aulenti got the idea for the table from industrial trolleys used at fontanaarte s factory to transport glass she replaced the trolley s wooden shelf with a thick sheet of glass and combined it with large free rolling industrial wheels.