Albula Table, Antonio Citterio, 2010

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Albula Table

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The Albula Table is a great coffee table, which, if well designed it originally Antonio Citterio parallel to his family Suita sofa, perfectly combined with other Vitra sofa can. On the one hand, with his unobtrusive, yet very peculiar phenomenon in formal, on the other hand, emphasizes its warm, homely Charisma that does not awaken from about memories of the Mid Century design. The characteristics of the table is its complex-shaped table top and the elliptical, turned against each other arranged in solid wood legs. The layout of the table top is not only visually appealing, it also offers a functional advantage: the enables to the narrow sides tapering table it easy access to the sofa and yet remains close enough to be sitting to easily as a storage respectively. Storage area to serve.

Material: Legs and top edge: solid wood. Table top: MDF with both sides linoleum edition.
1500 x 830 x 380 mm.

Product.Nr.: Vitra-201004302

Colours & Material

Wood / Veneer

Designer furniture by Antonio Citterio at lachair.com

Antonio Citterio, born 1950 in Meda, Italy, studied architecture at the Milan Polytechnic. In 1972 he began work as a designer and consultant in the field of industrial design, before joining Terry Dwan as a partner at Studio Citterio/Dwan from 1987-96. He held a teaching position at the Domus Academy in Milan from 1990-92 and was an external examiner for the Furniture Design course at the Royal College of London from 1993-95, before becoming a docent at La Sapienza University in Rome in 1997. Together with Patricia Viel, he founded the multidisciplinary office Antonio Citterio and Partners in Milan in 1999, and from 1999 to 2002 he also taught on the architectural faculty at the Università della Svizzera Italiana. He resumed a position on the faculty of this university in 2006.

Projects for Vitra:

2008 Production facilities, Neuenburg, Germany

Exhibitions:

2000 "50 Years of Italian and German Design", Bonn
1999 "Antonio Citterio & Partners. Progetti di architettura. 4 case e 4 uffici", Milan
1993 "Antonio Citterio & Terry Dwan", Arc en Rêve Centre, Bordeaux