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Maestro Dining Table
STRONG SCENIC IMPACT
With the precision and vivid identity that Gianfranco Frattini imbued in his work, the Maestro table was designed to conjure function and perfection in living spaces. Inspired by Japanese manufacturing techniques and aesthetics, Maestro features a slatted wooden base. The special slatted design makes the base light and varies according to the position of the observer.
Today, in the new 1.5×1.5 meters square version and in the 2,5, 3 and 3.5 meters rectangular version, it becomes grander in its scale for modern entertaining needs, and more dramatic in its material impact, with black and bleached ash wood and dark stained walnut making dark silhouettes of the long, cantilevered wings of the table and its linear play of cutouts that recalls traditional Japanese architecture.
Dining table. The Maestro table is composed of a base made of solid wood, in three finishes: black ash, bleached ash and dark stained walnut, which emphasizes and embellish the structure, the stand’s slatted design is synonymous with quality and authenticity. The top is made of 30 mm thick medium density wood fibre, with a special inlaid and brushed open grain veneer, in black ash, bleached ash or dark stained walnut finishes. These processes require a great manufacturing skill and a deep knowledge of wood.
Dimensions
Model D136 - W. 250cm (98 7/16”) D. 90cm (35 7/16”) H. 73cm (28 3/4”)
Model D068 - W. 300cm (118 1/8”) D. 100cm (39 3/8”) H. 73cm (28 3/4”)
Model D137 - W. 350cm (137 13/16”) D. 100cm (39 3/8”) H. 73cm (28 3/4”)
Model D140 - W. 350cm (137 13/16”) D. 120cm (47 1/4”) H. 73cm (28 3/4”)
Model D089 - W. 150cm (59 1/16”) D. 150cm (59 1/16”) H. 73cm (28 3/4”)
DESIGNEr
Gianfranco Frattini
Gianfranco Frattini
Maestro Dining Table
Gianfranco Frattini was born in Padua in 1926. He graduated with a degree in Architecture from the Politecnico di Milano in 1953. Frattini opened his own professional practice in Milan, after having worked in the office of his teacher and mentor Gio Ponti. In 1956 he co-founded ADI – Associazione per il Disegno Industriale – and throughout his career he practised both industrial design and architecture, focusing mostly on interiors. He was a board member of the Triennale di Milano. Great connoisseur of wood craftsmanship, he forged a long and fruitful professional partnership with the master craftsman Pierluigi Ghianda.
MANUFACTURER
ACERBIS
One of the most enduring furniture companies in Italy, Acerbis stands as a connoisseur’s benchmark of Italian design — a pioneer with 150 years of expertise, whose continual search for modernity has produced creations of stunning innovation. First founded in 1870 by Benvenuto Acerbis in Bergamo’s Valle Seriana, Acerbis introduced cutting-edge industrial production and collaborations with some of Italy’s most trailblazing designers by the 1960s under Lodovico Acerbis, including Giotto Stoppino, Massimo and Lella Vignelli, Vico Magistretti, Nanda Vigo and Gianfranco Frattini.
Acerbis impart a fundamental luxury experience of design for users to match the conceptual aesthetic solutions of the furnishings. Over these years of experimentation and industrialization, Acerbis forged its DNA of Italian ingenuity for a future-gazing clientele ever since. Today this mission continues with fresh vigor. With industry leader MDF Italia investing in Acerbis for a newly cemented partnership, and recently appointed creative directors Francesco Meda and David Lopez Quincoces helming a dynamic path forward, Acerbis affirms its family-led lineage of pace-setting vision, and its universe of designs that unite function and the avant-garde.
Looking to the past to face the challenges of the future, Acerbis takes on the great changes of our era, and the need to create a more sustainable society — a future that returns to a time when objects were made to last, when we needed only a few things but things that were beautiful and high-quality, when design meant a radical break from tradition and creating innovative products with the latest technology and material developments.
Acerbis will continue to offer beauty and functionality, like that found in all the iconic products of the company, which in its 150 years of experience has created products whose modernity survives the decades and remains avant-garde even today, and for the future. Continuing this mission means maintaining Acerbis as a place of research and experimentation, of new collaborations with both emerging and celebrated designers, and of breakthrough new products that will become future icons of design.
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