Franco Albini Shelf

Midcentury italian black chrome shelf bookcase in the style of franco albini.

Franco albini shelf. Explore all case pieces and storage cabinets created by franco albini. Franco albini designed this piece between 1956 and 1957 using a solid wood frame with several shelves as well as storage units that can be fitted with standard or drop down doors. In 1940 architect franco albini made a single model of his ship s rigging like veliero bookcase for his milan home where it eventually collapsed. Creating a more contemporary and functional piece the infinito wall shelf leaves a compartment ideal for a tv.

Model lb 7 shelf by franco albini for poggi 1980s. The new cupboard can be equipped for the passage of cables. Originally designed in 1956 7 by franco albini the infinito bookshelf has expanded to include a new wall version featuring a different and more stable floor support with wall joints. Franco albini designed the veliero which literally translates as sailboat in 1938 for his own home in via de togni milan.

Since 2008 applying industrial manufacturing processes cassina has launched a number of frame. Italian model am as floor lamp by franco albini franca helg for sirrah 1968. With the help of marine and civil engineers the famous italian rationalist architect and designer 1905 1977 created a single prototype of the iconic bookcase in brass steel ash wood and crystal. The infinito bookcase designed in 1956 7 by franco albini has expanded to include a new fixed to the wall version with a different and more stable floor support this model was developed in constant collaboration with the maestro s heirs taking as its main reference a project designed by albini himself together with franca helg in 1958 now on show at the albini foundation headquarters.

This elegant midcentury italian shelf or bookcase was made in the 1950s in the style of franco albini. It is made out of black lacquered beech and plywood the brackets are made out. But cassina which has committed to keeping alive the work of select master. An extremely flexible bookcase with myriad modular options suited to being against a wall or as a room partition.

Choose from 5 authentic franco albini shelves for sale on 1stdibs. Sixty six years later cassina fabricated the shelves in a re creation of albini s study for the renzo piano curated zero gravity exhibition. Franco albini s veliero is exemplary of this progressive often daring attitude which defies the laws of statics to bring back to life a design piece from 1940 through the alliance between modern technology and experimental authenticity.