Carlo di Carli for Sormani. “D154” chest of drawers. Year 1963.

Carlo di Carli for Luigi Sormani.

“D154” model chest of drawers in rosewood opening with three drawers on the front, in a “trousers” shape, with its overflowing top lined with a large ogee. Sheath base forming detached and grooved colonettes ending in the lower part with cubic shoes which end in high cylinders. Clogs and pulling handles, sectional in shape, in patinated bronze.

Dimensions: H 80 x W 144 x D 55 cm

Italian work realized in 1963.

Reference: LS61031759I

Carlo di Carli (1910-1999) is an Italian designer and architect who attended the Polytechnic School of Milan in 1934. He worked in the workshop of Gio Ponti then opened his own studio and began to collaborate, in 1940, with the Milan Triennale. His work developed mainly until the 1970s by creating residences, office buildings or furniture including chairs, desks and tables and his furniture was reproduced by the largest Italian manufacturers such as Cassina or Tecno. In 1954, he won the Compasso d’Oro for his work as a designer. From 1965 to 1968, he became dean of the faculty of architecture at the Polytechnic of Milan and taught his profession there until 1986. His furniture is more traditionally inspired, particularly in the choice of materials such as wood, glass, brass and fabrics. But he invents modern and elegant shapes for furniture creating a relationship between space, material and the human body.