It takes getting in new pieces by mid twentieth century designers for me to try to find out about the designers. We found a table by Ico Parisi, recently. So now for the investigating. Ico Parisi was born in 1916 and is still alive. He considered himself a Renaissance man. He was an architect, a furniture designer, a painter, and a photographer. He did not want to be know just as any one of these things, but for all of his accomplishments.
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| A larger version of the table we found this one listed by Lampedo |
He met
Luisa Aiani, a pupil of Gio Ponti, and married her. Together they were an unbeatable design team. They formed La Ruota, a studio specialized in interior design where they drew up designs for accessories as well as furniture. Their furniture was cutting edge to fit into the new modern buildings and homes of the period, and today still seems to have that cutting edge quality.
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| A rare "Taormina" chest of drawers by Luisa & Ico Parisi for MIM presented by Lampedo |
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