Ventaglio Table

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Charlotte Perriand believed that furniture should respond to life in all its complexity. The Ventaglio, Italian for "fan," distills that belief into a single, resolute form. Fourte en wooden staves, placed side by side and assembled with the precision Cassina's carpenters are known for, open into an asymmetrical fan-shaped surface that refuses a single definition. It is neither purely a dining table nor purely a desk, but both, and more. A configurable central section allows the table to seat between five and nine guests, or to accommodate a working team with room for screens and professional tools. The silhouette is at once architectural and warm. The radiating stave construction carries an almost geological rhythm, a reminder that Perriand drew as readily from the natural world as from the drafting table. Fourteen-stave fan construction in solid wood Asymmetrical form adaptable to dining and professional use Configurable central section seats five to nine Crafted by Cassina to the original Perriand specifications Perriand spent decades questioning how people inhabit space, working alongside Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret before forging a body of work unmistakably her own. The Ventaglio is among her most considered statements: a table that holds the geometry of the fan in wood, and holds within that geometry a genuine argument for how we might gather. Show more