After the chair, the table represents the second primary element in furnishing where Kartell was able to gain experience, using a less industrialized and more reliable technology: reinforced polyester molding. In 1966 Anna Castelli Ferrieri and Ignazio Gardella were engaged in the internal restructuring of the Residence annexed to the Hotel Gritti in Venice and could not find a suitable table for that environment: hence the decision to design it themselves using polyester resin, up to that moment used in Italy only to manufacture boats, which in terms of brilliance and color rendering had nothing to envy to enamel. The designers brought their know-how by proposing a goblet-shaped structure capable of acting as a continuous perimeter support to the circular table top, connected with a metal ring to the support base, in turn consisting of an overturned goblet open on three spokes of support on the ground. The table was therefore made up of three pieces: the base, with adjustable chromed brass feet, into which a mixture of sand and resin was poured as ballast, the chalice and the top that was fitted onto the chalice as if it were a lid.
Title: Round table 4991
Author: Anna Castelli Ferrieri; Ignazio Gardella
Date: 1966 - 1979
Technique: Glass fiber reinforced polyester resin, stainless steel
Displayed in: Kartell Museum
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