Fontana Arte Tavolo Con Ruote Table
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An industrial trolley used at the Fontana Arte plant to transport glass: this was the object that inspired Gae Aulenti to design her Tavolo con Ruote. 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. This wheeled table replaces the factory trolley’s wooden shelf with a chunky sheet of bevelled glass – a tribute to the company’s production history – and fits free-rolling industrial wheels. The nature of the object and its intended use are transformed by replacing just one simple part.
Coffee table with ground float-glass top. Industrial wheels with painted metal brackets.
Gae Aulenti
Her most famous works include Museé d'Orsay in Paris (1986) and the installation of Musée National d'Art Moderne at the Centre Pompidou (1985); the renovation of Palazzo Grassi in Venice (1986); the new access to S. Maria Novella station in Florence (1990); the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco (2003), the Museum of Catalan Art in Barcelona (2004); the Italian Cultural Institute in Tokyo and Palavela in Turin, both inaugurated in 2005. In 2012 Palazzo Branciforte in Palermo and the new San Francesco d'Assisi Airport in Perugia were completed.
