DRUZHBA4 TABLE

Table, Design Apparat, DRUZHBA4, Mirko Tattarini, 2009. Table made in plywood wax finishing, top in fiber-concrete


Dimensions. H.cm. 74 top 160x80
DRUZHBA 4 translates into the language of objects the
dual presence of wood and concrete that characterizes
Soviet architecture. The legs of the table are made of
plywood finished with wax, while the tabletop features the
solid presence of fiber-concrete.
In addition, the severity of the mixing and matching of
volumes provides a point of encounter between two
conflicting motifs: that of the soft sweetness, however
rationalist in the final analysis, of the table legs, inspired
by the rounded forms of Ottoman architecture, and the
brittle harshness of the tabletop, a metaphor for the
coercive brutality of the regime architecture