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The Veliero bookcase by Cassina, the furniture poster child for Franco Albini’s work.
Between virtual movement and stasis, the iconic Veliero bookcase by Franco Albini for Cassina recalls the stays and sails of a sailing boat in its shape and structure. Franco Albini designed the single unit of this bookcase in 1940, for is house in Via De Togni, Milan, involving marine and civil engineering experts to make the piece usable and stable.
The versatile bookcase can serve as a room divider at the center of a space as a "furnished window" with a view on new contemporary living scenarios.
The books seem to be floating in the air, lying on two ash bars through a system of steel rods and laminated glass shelves, between visual instability and actual stability.
The experimentalism of this design piece develops into a vibrant, articulated, as well as surprisingly linear structure.
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