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Cicognino coffee table TN6
Easel table TL2
Rocking chair in wood PS16
Machine gun floor lamp
Mobile radio in crystal securit
Tavolo TL3
LB10 library
Sailing Ship Library
Fiorenza armchair
Fiorenza armchair
Fiorenza armchair
Three Pieces Armchair
Luisa armchair
Luisa armchair
Gala armchair
Margherita armchair
Margherita armchair sketch
Milanese underground handrail
Cicognino coffee table TN6
Easel table TL2
Rocking chair in wood PS16
Machine gun floor lamp
Mobile radio in crystal securit
Tavolo TL3
LB10 library
Sailing Ship Library
Fiorenza armchair
Fiorenza armchair
Fiorenza armchair
Three Pieces Armchair
Luisa armchair
Luisa armchair
Gala armchair
Margherita armchair
Margherita armchair sketch
Milanese underground handrail

Sailing Ship Library

Franco Albini

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Franco Albini Foundation

Franco Albini Foundation

Via Telesio, 13, Milan

Closed today: open Tuesday at 09:00

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The Il Veliero bookcase is an emblematic object of Albinian planning, as it clearly reflects its passionate search for a balance point between visual instability and effective stability, between virtual movement and stasis, between engineering experimentation and museum display . The Il Veliero bookcase is a sort of aerial sculpture that places the books, true protagonists of the function, in a metaphysical suspension. Albini designs each element rejecting prefabricated components, with the exception of the Securit glass (already used for the mobile radio), the metal rods, the cables and the brass bolts. A subtle play of tensions and compressions binds the materials, tense and forced to the maximum, becoming harmonic elements of an instrument designed to build a new idea of floating space at the service of man. Only one prototype of the bookcase was created for Albini's apartment in via De Togni: one night the sailing ship collapsed and shattered like a glass dream. After almost seventy years, the Cassina company decides to reproduce this mythical object.
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Title: Sailing Ship Library

Author: Franco Albini

Date: 1940

Technique: Wood Steel

Displayed in: Franco Albini Foundation

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