Loico bookshelf designed by Angelo Mangiarotti for Agapecasa, is a program consisting of cylindrical, stackable weight-bearing elements and shelves which can be slotted in to create modular bookcases in adjustable height and length; made in white Carrara, black Marquina, grey Carnico, green Alpi and Emperador Dark marble.
The underside of all the shelves is coated with carbon fibre sheet for structural and safety reasons.
Angelo Mangiarotti designs by crossing the knowledge of the qualities of materials with technologies to bend them to his purpose and, vice versa, to bring out the most convenient form from technology. The bonds between the parties, borrowed from experiences in prefabrication and architecture, complete the definition of the project. Thus was born Loico, a program made up of cylindrical and stackable load-bearing elements and shelves that are fixed in the appropriate joints to create bookcases with modular measures both in height and in width. A system of marble tables as a cornerstone of research on interlocking furniture without joints or locks: for the "Loico" tables the construction solution involves a gravity joint between the top and the leg, obtained thanks to the truncated conical section of the itself. Loico is more than a product, it is a system imagined with multiple different shapes and sizes, each with a peculiar interlocking point, and where the elegant design of the slots open on the perimeters and at the corners of the tops is determined by the elimination of the most fragile that would not have withstood the stresses: sophisticated detail and a key to understanding a real constructive invention.
Starting price (VAT included): € 9.203,68