Agapecasa presents
the Club 44 table by Angelo Mangiarotti
A synthetic manifesto of the work of the Milanese Maestro, Club 44 is a timeless table with a suggestive architectural construction. Designed in 1957 together with Bruno Morassutti as a one-off for the homonymous club in La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland, the table enters production today for the first time, extending the Mangiarotti Collection with a new project.
The table design announces a series of recurring themes in Mangiarotti's work. The poetics of assembly will become a cornerstone in his journey towards an ethical economy of construction.
The "correct" treatment of the different materials used and their sophisticated sequence in which the mass is concentrated downwards become the distant starting point of a journey which will see the Eros and Incas tables as the next milestones of an investigation that will go on for several decades.
The markedly architectural construction in three pieces allows each element to express its characteristics and its poetry: the reassuring mass of the truncated conical concrete supports in concrete, the light and graphical presence of the tops and the technical elegance of the steel structure reminiscent of Mies van der Rohe's work.
Elegance and sculptural beauty accompany the dialogue between the materiality of the base and the essentiality of the top in its many variations and finishes, generating a family in which the concrete base remains the focal point.
The tops come in four shapes and two materials - square, elliptical, round and rectangular, either in glass or wood. There are many available finishes for the 30 mm birch plywood tops with visible edges, ranging from Slovenian oak in three different shades to seven variants of Forbo natural linoleum.
True classics. For the renovation of Club 44 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Mangiarotti and Morassutti also design the chairs of the same name, which are also part of the Mangiarotti Collection. For their structural clarity and their adherence to the principles of good design, both projects preserve their unaltered modernity and freshness, even today, 65 years from their conception.