Angelo Mangiarotti, a marble master at RBC Paris
The Parisian showroom of RBC, located in the 15th arrondissement, offers until November 23, an exhibition dedicated to the Italian master of architecture and design Angelo Mangiarotti (1921-2012). On the sidelines of the Paris Design Week, this exhibition named "Angelo Mangiarotti: skilful reflections" presents the iconic creations of the master, marble and wood, which are reissued since 2010 by Agapecasa, the entity positioned on the habitat and the contract d'Agape, an Italian company specializing in the world of high-end bathroom. The creations on display reflect the designer's ability to imagine marble furniture without joints or tightening: the Eros tables (1971) for example, consist of a frustoconical foot - wider at the base than at the top - which supports the plateau by simple gravitational embedding, the whole being blocked by the weight of the material, which gives lines of a great simplicity and purity.
The creator goes even further with the Eccentrico elliptical tables, which consist of an elliptical plane inserted asymmetrically into an inclined cylindrical foot, the whole holding in balance thanks to a learned calculation of distribution of forces. Agapecasa also reissues Mangiarotti's equally inspired wooden creations: a system patented more than 50 years ago, the Cavaletto library is a modular program consisting of an inverted V-shaped trestle element, which can be superimposed thanks to a simple gravitational joint, and can accommodate shelves to block by a "dovetail" assembly. As for the Incas table, with its legs trunk-pyramidal trapezoidal section, it is declined by the manufacturer as well as marble solid wood.
