838 Veliero
Design: Franco Albini
2011 (Year of drawing:1940)
Description: An audacious challenge to the laws of physics: "Veliero" is the legendary bookcase that Franco Albini designed and had made for his house in Via De Togni, Milan, as a one-off piece in 1940. In its form and structure, "Veliero" recalls the masts and rigging of a sailing ship; two ash-wood beams from which layered glass shelves are suspended with a system of steel ties. The result is airy, translucent and rigorous: books seem to literally float in space. "Veliero" becomes the most iconic of Franco Albini's works.
The bookcase consists of two pillars of ash with brass tip ends. 4mm stainless steel tie rods. Anchoring elements of the rods are in burnished iron with the central rods in polished brass. The shelves are made of safety glass. Shelf supports in ash with polished brass ends. Diagonal reinforcing tie rods for the shelves in polished brass. The base is in steel with the covering panels in ash.
80.9 x 21.9 x h. 103.9 in
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