Agapecasa • EROS
Table
Top and supports in Carrara marble. Designed by Angelo Mangiarotti. Agapecasa edition.
REF. 91833
W.170 x H.72 x D.170cm
In Stock
A marble table system as a milestone in the research on interlocking furniture without joints or clamping: for the ‘Eros’ tables, the construction solution involves a gravity joint between the top and the leg, achieved thanks to the truncated conical section of the leg.
Eros is more than a product, it is a system imagined with many different shapes and sizes, each with its own particular interlocking point, and where the elegant design of the open slots on the perimeters and at the corners of the tops is determined by the elimination of the most fragile parts that would not have withstood the stress: a sophisticated detail and the key to a true constructive invention.
One of the great names of Twentieth century Italian design, a committed, cultivated and brilliant designer, capable of embracing the ideals of the Modern Movement and going beyond them with his experimental and extremely original designs, Angelo Mangiarotti has succeeded in applying his unique talent to projects of different scales, ranging from architecture to design.
An advocate of rigorous functionalism, he has never neglected the pursuit of elegance and beauty in his work. He pushed beyond conventional boundaries and moved into sculpture with his skillful reflections on plasticity and form, always using contemporary materials and production processes. His approach, and the principles that underlie it, have always been the result of a profound awareness of the importance of values that have an ethical dimension. Angelo Mangiarotti has created his own ‘happiness’ through the ‘correctness’ of his practice, cleverly managing to reconcile the inescapable dualism of ethics and aesthetics.
In 2009, after years of fruitful and engaging collaboration with the Master on a number of iconic projects for Agape, the friendship, the affection and the admiration for Angelo Mangiarotti, naturally lead the Benedini brothers to the acquisition of the production rights of the majority of the works in his archives. The Agapecasa brand is born, destined to give space to the original re-editions of the “Mangiarotti Collection”.
This collection faithfully reproduces some of Mangiarotti’s most famous projects, now made taking into account the demand for a more contemporary production, introducing only minimal variations in construction,but carefully preserving the theoretical, compositional and formal aspects of one of the great artists of the twentieth century.
As a further guarantee of quality and in line with the ongoing effort to upgrade technology that distinguishes Agape’s production, the “Mangiarotti Collection” is also equipped with an innovative system of certification that makes it possible to trace all relevant data and characteristics, from serial number to dealer’s name and even customer, and from the materials to the technologies used in production to certify the undiscussed originality of the product.
