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Serenissimo Dining Table
STRONG MATERIAL AND GRAPHIC CONTRAST
The precisely delineated Serenissimo renders a table as a graphic composition, with four columns and a linear steel girder to float the table-top above. In the key of Lella and Massimo Vignelli’s original design, the creation speaks through its geometry and materials. Its elemental shapes, defined by the soft tones of Venetian stucco and refined metal finishes, now take on a new expression with the introduction of a marble top – available exclusively with the metal base – which flanks the wide glass surface. This striking material presence enriches the composition, resulting in a harmonious balance of monumental proportions.
The structure consists of 4 cylindrical bases (Ø 28 cm) made with a steel tube, painted in either a gun-metal grey or orbital bronze finish, or, in Encausto’s more tactile variations, in the colors terracotta, green, and white. The metal frame that holds together the 4 bases and supports the table top is painted micaceous grey. Tabletops are available in either a square or rectangular version and in the following finishes:
Transparent glass, float glass plate characterized by transparency. Extra clear opalescent glass, float glass plate with smooth and glossy upper side, acid-etched lower side. Cast glass, glass plate hot molded with smooth and glossy upper side, wrinkled (for casting) and semi-transparent back-lacquered lower side, in the colors black, mustard yellow, english green, pink. Lacquered frosted white glass, float glass plate with acid-etched upper side (silky effect to the touch), and back-lacquered lower side. Encausto: also known as “Venetian stucco”, encausto uses a highly sophisticated technique in which a fine sand plaster is applied in successive layers, the last of which is colored with natural earth.
Dimensions
Model No. D097 - W. 160cm (63") D. 160cm (63") H. 72cm (28 3/8")
Model No. D101 - W. 180cm (70 7/8") D. 180cm (70 7/8") H. 72cm (28 3/8")
Model No. D103 - W. 200cm (78 3/4") D. 200cm (78 3/4") H. 72cm (28 3/8")
Model No. D141 - W. 250cm (98 7/16") D. 120cm (47 1/4") H. 72cm (28 3/8")
Model No. D080 - W. 300cm (118 1/8") D. 120cm (47 1/4") H. 72cm (28 3/8")
Model No. D140 - W. 350cm (137 13/16") D. 120cm (47 1/4") H. 72cm (28 3/8")
DESIGNEr
Lella & Massimo Vignelli, David Law
Lella and Massimo Vignelli, David Law
Serenissimo Dining Table
Lella and Massimo Vignelli are a husband-and wife team. They studied in Venice, Italy, and in 1960 established the Massimo and Lella Vignelli Office of Design and Architecture in Milan, working with graphics, products, furniture and interiors. In 1965 they founded Unimark International Corporation, and, in 1971, Vignelli Associates, with an office in New York and liaison offices in Paris and Milan. The Vignellis’ work has been awarded numerous prizes and exhibited several times in sector publications, in the United States and abroad. Several of his works are included in the permanent collections of several museums.
David Law studied at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, where he graduated with honors in 1961. In 1967 he joined Unimark lnternational as an executive designer in the Detroit and Chicago offices and, in 1978 he joined Vignelli Associates. Mr. Law’s experience includes work and graphic, packaging, environmental, exhibition, product, furniture and interior design. His work is represented in the permanent collection of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum.
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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