Quaderna table, design Superstudio for Zanotta
The frame of the table is a honeycomb structure coated with Print white plastic coating with silk-screen printed black squares. The table is characterized by simple and precise shapes.

The entire surface, including the top and the legs is finished with the plastic coating and 3 cm squares. 
Designed by Superstudio the group founded in Florence by Cristiano Toraldo di Francia and Adolfo Natalini in 1966, the Quaderna table has been produced without interruption by Zanotta since 1970. 

The Quaderna table, a cult object, is a product of the Radical Design style. This was the movement started in Tuscany that later spread internationally in the sixties and seventies. It aimed at revolutionizing the conventional approach to architecture and planning.  Radical Design meant putting a stop to placing rationality and functionality at the core of planning. Instead, designers found a new appreciation of emotions and human communication. Ettore Sottsass was the first to pioneer these principles. His work allowed the 'radicals' to discover the potential of this new approach to design. Archizoom, Superstudio, Ufo and Pettena all count as representatives of the Radical Design movement.

This piece received immediate recognition and was awarded the golden medal at the M.I.A. International exhibition of 1971. The Quaderna table is exhibited in the following museums: israel museum, jerusalem - museum für angewandte kunst, köln - kunstgewerbemuseum, berlin - kunstmuseum, düsseldorf - la triennale, milano - vitra design museum, weil am rhein.

The table is available in the square or rectangular version

Comes in 3 different dimensions:

w. 111 x d. 111 x h 72 cm
w. 126 x d. 126 x h 72 cm
w. 180 x d. 90 x h 72 cm

Zanotta
Zanotta has been a dominant figure in the world of design ever since it was established in 1954. It helped establish some of the most influential designers of the 20th Century, including Achille Castiglioni, Gae Aulenti, Marco Zanuso, Ettore Sottsass, Joe Colombo, Alessandro Mendini, Andrea Branzi, Giuseppe Terragni, Carlo Mollino, De Pas-D'Urbino-Lomazzi, Enzo Mari, Bruno Munari, Alfredo Haberli, Werner Asslinger and Ross Lovegrove. Yet, even while collaborating with some of the most successful furniture and interior designers of our age, Zanotta has maintained a provocative and innovative style. Thanks to its ability to keep apace and precede changing styles Zanotta's design has consistently obtained international recognition. It is no surprise, that products by Zanotta are exposed all over the world, including at the New York's MOMA and Metropolitan Museum, the Paris Centre George Pompidou, the London Design Museum, Berlin's Arts and Crafts Museum, the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
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