Property from a Private Collection, Switzerland
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Piero Bottoni
Rare dining table
circa 1950
Partially ebonised mahogany-veneered wood, mahogany, ebonised mahogany.
75.7 x 310 x 102.2 cm (29 3/4 x 122 x 40 1/4 in.)
Together with a certificate of expertise from the Piero Bottoni Archive.
Full-Cataloguing
Only three examples of the present model dining table executed in wood are known to exist, which the architect Piero Bottoni designed for Casa Sant’Unione, Bologna (1942-1943), Casa Minerbi, Ferrara (1949-1950) and the present example for Casa Perego, Milan (late 1940s-early 1950s). The design developed from an earlier version in reinforced concrete for Villa Muggia (1936-1938), an eighteenth-century hunting lodge, which Bottoni together with Mario Pucci restored.