Tea Table

Tea table (a), maple plywood and glass. One continuous sheet of plywood curved in "S" shape with irregular ovals cut out of it, the longest opening below the center of the table. Two removable (b,c) clear glass shelves, both of irregularly oblong outline: the larger resting on top of the wood form, the other inserted below as second half.

Today when we think of where inventive contemporary design is manufactured, we often think of Italy. This, however, was not always the case. Wide acceptance of modern design came somewhat later in Italy than elsewhere, perhaps because of the ever-present conservative influence of the palpable Roman classical past and the slow development of the Italian economy in the twentieth century. To be ...