Compensato table designed by Angelo Mangiarotti for Agapecasa is made of birch plywood with natural oak, brown oak or dark oak finish available in different shapes and heights.
Tables made with thin layers of plywood, whose curved shapes make them more rigid, giving strength and stability to a very simple structure, made lighter and slimmer by the design of the tapered leg. The Plywood project was well ahead of its time in many relevant respects. He pushed the boundaries of new materials and manufacturing processes with the aim of introducing bentwood furniture into mass production. It follows the path of the concepts introduced in 1952 in his Appartamento Bignardi with a project that predates his well-known contemporaries by several years (Eames' Lounge Chair is from 1956). As a conceptual precursor to IKEA's packaging / assembly system, the plywood construction system was initially planned to be dismantled, so as to create stools, benches and sofa beds as well. The evocative project praised by the great Alvar Aalto in the mid-fifties, with its design still brilliant in the search for a simplicity that is not obvious, for the quality of its characteristics at the same time simple and elegant and for its compositional precision, structural clarity and the wise balance of its proportions that define it. Further on, the thoughts that led Compensato to us also found their way into other projects by the Maestro such as the Manzoni Apartment in Milan in 1957.
Starting price (VAT included): € 3.074,40