Sideboard by Giovanni Michelucci for Poltronova

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An imposing architectural construction, but essential in form, as essential and primary was this type of furniture in all Italian … Read more An imposing architectural construction, but essential in form, as essential and primary was this type of furniture in all Italian homes until the early 1900s.
The "Madia", always made of wood, whether Spartan or decorated, was used for leavening and preserving bread, which was placed in the leavening chamber created by the doors underneath the top.
Giovanni Michelucci, an important Italian architect, author of great works such as the S. Maria Novella station in Florence, with this project reinterpreted and brought into the homes of the 1960s, now equipped with TVs and useless furnishings, the memory of real and necessary things for man, using a material as real and ancient as wood in the era of plastic materials. I have official proof of authenticity such as vintage catalogs,
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