Cassina
Elling Buffet Sideboard
Price € 28.615,00
Conceived in 1919, the Elling Buffet sideboard represents the core of the new spatiality of neoplasticism. Born from Gerrit Thomas Rietveld’s mind, it was used initially in the model residence designed by J.P Oud in Spangen, Rotterdam and in several interior projects including the one for P.J Elling. Unluckly, the original model was destroyed by a fire, so in 1951 a new edition, edited by the same artist, was presented during the exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Thanks to Cassina, nowadays we are able to admire the outline of this historic piece of furniture whose clearness in the structure gives birth to a grid founded on a structural heart where tops, drawers, storage units and bookcases are connected to. Looking at this model, you can easily notice the influence of both F.L.Wright and E.W.Godwin’s anglo-japanese art, especially for the emphasized horizontality of the tops, counterbalanced by vertical supports which help building a sort of cage where all the storage elements are fixed.
W.200 x D.45 x H.102 cm
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Founded in 1927 by the brothers Cesare and Umberto in the heart of Brianza furniture, Cassina is one of the long-lived Made in Italy industrial design companies. From the early ‘30s, Cassina brothers identified the strong demand for home furnishings and interpreted in a far-sighted way the renewed taste of the new emerging classes. From this intuition, Cassina started a real revolution in the indoor furnishings design. Since then, the company has been pursuing a path of research and innovation, involving prestigious designers and architects in the study of new furnishings models. In the last few years the collaboration with Gio Ponti has begun. Thanks to this partnership were born the 646 chair, known as Leggera, and the subsequent model 699 or Superleggera.Read more
Designed by
Gerrit Thomas Rietveld
Gerrit Thomas Rietveld (1888-1964) was a historic Dutch designer, protagonist of the avant-garde movement of De Stijl. Son of a carpenter and appreciated cabinetmaker himself, he got involved in the artistic ferments of the first post-war period, adhering to the stylistic features of Neoplasticism and being the first to adapt the principles of that movement to the production of furniture. His creations bear the strong aesthetic and theoretical influence of painters such as Piet Mondrian and Theo Van Doesburg, as it is evident in what is perhaps his most famous creation: the Red and Blue Chair, dominated by straight lines and by the use of primary colors. He also applied the same principles to architecture, in projects determined by a rigid geometry, such as the Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht. Starting in the 1960s, his furnishings have been reissued by Cassina, in the famous "I Maestri" collection, while other less famous creations have been more recently re-proposed in the catalogs of Dutch brands such as Lensvelt and Spectrum.Read more