Piedi Regolabili Table

Ignazio Gardella - 1951/2018

A timeless classic.
Ignazio Gardella designed it in 1951 for the Altamira gallery in New York City.
It's a modern table, perhaps one of the first of its kind. As rational as the thought of its designer.
The adjustable feet, after which it's named, are not just a creative quirk: they have the specific function to adjust the height of the tabletop according to the customer's pleasure. This feature also makes it versatile on a floor that is not perfectly leveled.
Originally only oval-shaped, since 2017 it is also proposed in the round version with the possibility of customizing the top (color or essence).

Materials

Wood, Iron, Brass

Type

Table

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Tabletop finishings

Veneer (walnut), Lacquered
Satin or Glossy

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Inspiration

Stories could be told around this oval table, resting on a black-painted iron support with four adjustable brass feet, about the design work that Ignazio Gardella did together with Edoardo Persico and a small circle of fighting spirits who contested the monumental idea of architecture and its obtuse, even hateful rhetoric.
Work that was elegant and civil, a moment of sharing hypotheses and opinions that involved more or less everyone: Figini, Pagano, Terragni, Pollini, Albini. And then the BBPR team. And then, also in mass production, Caccia Dominioni and Corradi Dell’Acqua. All architecture students, all intellectuals who had inevitably met because, in the condition of society at the time, from the 1930s to 50s, with the war in the middle, they were seeking the highest quality and the most culturally advanced position. And Gardella would also bring this programme of technical rigour and new possibilities into the classroom, in Venice. Because he saw the job of architect and designer as all-round cultural work, he thought criticism was part of the planner’s activities.