Desk ZENO in Wood and Liquid Rubber by Massimo Scolari for Giorgetti, Italy, 1990s

Exceptional desktop or office, by Italian designer Massimo Scolari for Giorgetti. This design of the year 1994, which is called Zeno, has a solid and polished beech wood structure, with a natural varnish and is completed with a black liquid rubber envelope. Modern aesthetics is provided by asymmetric design, with inverted legs. The legs also have small details in solid ebony, in addition to anodized aluminum protectors to avoid blows. It is ideal for any contemporary environment, with a luxurious style. The liquid rubber envelope has slight fingerprints.

About Massimo Scolari (1943-)

Massimo Scolari, a renowned Italian designer, graduated in architecture in Milan in 1969, and soon began his career as a professor of architecture history at the University of Palermo and History and Technique of drawing at the University Institute of Architecture of Venice. He worked in several more universities, such as Cornell University, Cooper Union N.y., Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies N.y., Technische University Vienna, Harvard University, Cambridge, and since 2006 he is a visiting professor at the Yale School of Architecture.

He is especially admired for his southern influence designs, inspired by authors such as Salvador Dalí and Yves Tanguy, who promoted the concept of “illogical” design. He has made exhibitions in Europe, Japan, Russia and the United States. His works are found in the permanent collections of MoMA (New York), of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Tehran, of the Deutsces Architekurt Museum (Frankfurt) and the Pompidou Center (Paris). He carried out facilities for the Biennials of Venice of 1980, 1984, 1991, 1996 and 2004 and in the triennials of Milan of 1973 and 1986. In 2014 he received the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture, granted by the American Academy of Arts and The lyrics of New York.

Dimensions: 62 x 160 x 80 cm.