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PEGASUS
The Pegasus Home Desk is a small, ingeniously conceived home workplace that provides space for the digital devices that have long since become part of our everyday lives. A well-designed workplace solution is conjoined here with the elegance of a perfectly crafted piece of domestic furniture. The thick bend-leather tabletop can be rolled or folded upward as needed to access the intelligently arranged compartments below. Here there is space for a laptop, tablet PC, mobile phone, paper, charging stations, power supply or other accessories. The finely perforated pattern of the leather not only creates a visually interesting surface structure but also hints at the devices stowedbelow while providing additional ventilation of the relevant compartments. Like in a functional saddle bag, these objects disappear inside and yet are readily available at any time. The Pegasus Home Desk brings order to the chaos of digital everyday life, juxtaposing high-tech aesthetics with the material qualities, feel and workmanship of the artisanal world of the leatherworker and saddle-maker.
Secretary Desk. Base of powder-coated or chromium-plated steel bar, optionally covered in bend leather with contrasting stitching. Body with drawer and four compartments in HPL/multiplex with matte colour painted finish. Front and back clad in burnished stainless steel sheet or in solid walnut. Reinforced bend leather worktop with contrasting stitching and bottom covered with black fabric can be folded up on the side. Cable outlet. Height-adjustable metal gliders.
The PEGASUS desk is a small, ingeniously conceived home workplace. The leather tabletop can be rolled or folded upward to access the compartments below. The perforated pattern of the leather not only creates a visually interesting surface structure but also hints at the devices stowed below while providing additional ventilation of the relevant compartments.
GHOSTWRITER
GHOSTWRITER plays at hiding in the living area, with its discreet and elegant monolithic volume made of polished lacquered wood; when open it loves to surprise you by revealing a multi-purpose space for the home office, enhanced by the warm tones of Eucalyptus wood in material contrast with the outside finish. With a single touch, the Dual-Flap® system opens the large front flap turning it into a handy writing table. At the same time one part of the top can be lifted for easy access to the inside section of the cabinet, which includes paper racks and a small drawer for pens. The set-up is completed by handy power outlets (two USB and two Shuko), which are hidden at the bottom of the inside compartment, plus a touch lighting strip which is perfectly integrated within the table top; when the cabinet is opened it adjusts to the correct lighting angle for the workstation.
With Ghostwriter writing-desk, Giacomo Moor’s innovative functionality creates the perfect home office. A masterpiece of discreet minimalism when closed, with a single touch the Dual-Flap® system opens the front panel revealing the inside while turning into a handy writing table.
QUADERNA
The Seventies were years of transition and rethinking, but also of visionary utopia which revolutionised parameters, thinking, styles and perspectives. With it's story, Quaderna represents the utopia of those years. The radical movement attempts to "gobeyond the disciplinary aspect of design, that is to say the re-composition of contradictions at formal level, destroying... the usual image of the product"1. The result is a vanguard style which provokes, on the one hand, and creates stimuli for the contemporary world, on the other. “Radical design” openly confuted not just the status of design, but the entire social context in which designers worked. An explicit criticism of the rigid and dogmatic functionalism of the academy, against which the movement wished to be seen as a liberating vision of life and design.
Desk. Honeycomb core structure coated with white Print laminate, digitally printed with black squares at 3 cm spacing. The top hides a retractable pull-out drawer, with a drawer compartment in black scratch-resistant embossed painted wood.
QUADERNA represents the utopia of the seventies. The radical movement attempts to "go beyond the disciplinary aspect of design, that is to say the re-composition of contradictions at formal level, destroying... the usual image of the product”. The result is a vanguard style which provokes, on the one hand, and creates stimuli for the contemporary world, on the other.