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Napoleone Low Table
REBORN REFLECTIONS
Introduced at the XV Triennale di Milano in 1973, Claudio Salocchi’s Napoleone Low Table embodies geometric clarity and innovative use of materials. During a period when traditional interiors seldom incorporated unconventional materials, Salocchi created a family of tables and display units characterized by straightforward geometry and unique material combinations. The Napoleone Low Table, free from ornamental details and capitals, was intended to foster direct interaction - ironically referencing Napoleon’s famously confrontational style. Its brushed stainless steel structure, coupled with opposing mirrors, generates intriguing reflections and transparencies, prompting introspection.
Claudio Salocchi (1934–2012) significantly influenced Italian design throughout the 1960s and 1970s. His visionary approach anticipated future trends in form, function, and technology, shaping international standards in industrial design, architecture, and interior design. Salocchi received the Compasso d'Oro award in 1979 and multiple honorable mentions, highlighting his ability to merge practical function with aesthetic simplicity.
In 2023, Acerbis revived Salocchi’s Napoleone Low Table, enhancing its distinctive appeal with polyester lacquer finishes inspired by vintage sports car colors.
Low tables. The top is made of 10 mm thick extra-clear tempered glass fixed to the structure with Ø12 mm bumpers. Bridge structure in satin-finish AISI304 stainless steel sheet that binds the two side panels and holds the two facing mirrors.
The base is made of medium-density engineered wood, always with glossy lacquer in black, white, chalk, linen, sand, clay, burgundy, pink, green, mustard, brick, or navy. Matching skirting. Natural silver-plated mirrors fitted inside the steel frame.
Dimensions
Model No. D156 - W. 72cm (28 3/8") D. 72cm (28 3/8") H. 35.5cm (13 31/32")
Model No. D157 - W. 144cm (56 5/8") D. 72cm (28 3/8") H. 35.5cm (13 31/32")
DESIGNEr
Claudio Salocchi
Claudio Salocchi
Napoleone Low Table
Claudio Salocchi (Milan, 1934 – 2012) was an Italian architect and designer. He was a protagonist of the creative ferment of the 60s and 70s who knew how to interpret the transformations of that period into projects that anticipated forms, functionalities, technologies and new typologies that became trends many years later. In his long career he was internationally involved for more than fifty years in the fields of industrial design, architecture and interior design. From 1967 he was a member of ADI, the Association for Industrial Design, of which he was vice president from the 80s until the beginning of the 90s. He was an independent and unclassifiable figure: as a designer, his works are related to the exclusive collaboration with some companies born at that time that rapidly stood out for their unique products, giving to the history of Italian Design an important contribution. He researched and was interested in prefabrication, creativity, and design matters, and with the group “Ricerche Non Finalizzate” – he took part in the expositions at the Triennale di Milano in 1968 and 1973. As for architecture, his work found its best expression in the refurbishing of preexisting buildings, transformed in a functional and modern way.
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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