The Cavour Desk

Product Description

Distinctive design from 1949. Strong & easy to maintain glass top. Indebted to Italian & Scandinavian design traditions. Help inspiration strike with an exact reproduction of Carlo Mollino's architectural writing desk. The light wood grain, thick plate glass top & multiple storage sections, make this distinctive piece functional & formally ambitious. Mollino's mixture of materials, straight & curved forms, unusual angles & use of the distinctive elevated compartment, create a desk reminiscent of the greatest modernist buildings. This dazzling, yet practical, design would be a powerful statement in a study or home office. The story behind Carlo Mollino's Cavour Desk One glimpse of Mollino's Cavour Writing Desk & his engineering background is clear, but equally obvious is his love of the whimsical & fantastical. Mollino was an obsessive skier & the slopes & outcrops of the desk clearly mimic the graceful geometry of his beloved alps. Ahead of his time by a generation, it seems as though we are finally catching up with Mollino's imagination & his mixture of old-fashioned design & eccentric personal interests.