Osvaldo Borsani in 1953, together with his brother Fulgenzio, realized his most complex project: a company idea named after the "techne" of the Greeks, which means both art and technique. Tecno thinking was born: the perfect synthesis between the artisan experience of the atelier and its declination on a larger scale.
Tecno is first and foremost an entrepreneur's project: Italy has begun its process of tertiarization; the office environment does not yet have its unquestionable formal definition, and that is where Osvaldo Borsani wants to get to: to reinvent for workspaces that mix of formal elegance, rigor and rational functionality that the modern movement had developed for domestic living.
Here we have a tripod side table with brass legs and wooden and glass round tabletop designed by Osvaldo Borsani for Arredamenti Borsani Varedo (original label as shown in photos) in early 50s.
Published in: G. Bosoni, "Osvaldo Borsani. Architetto, designer, imprenditore", Skira, Milano 2018.
Good condition, fully original.