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Atlas Coffee Table

Danny Lane

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"Thanks to the skills of its master sculptors, Fiam manages to mould this coffee table so that every piece is unique, and conveys the soul of this material: simply looking at one of the legs from the top is like diving into the depth of the ocean, with a rare sensation of awe and wonder." Danny Lane

A sculptor of American origin, Danny Lane moved to England in 1975 to study with Patrick Reyntiens, an artist specialized in the use of coloured glass. A disciple of the visionary artist Cecil Collins, he studied Fine Arts at the Byam Shaw School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design. At college he experimented with and developed his own concept of design, which continued to be the main feature of his creative process.

Travelling in Europe, he confirmed his early interest in the comparisons of the relationship between art and architecture. In 1981 he set up his first studio in London and began to develop applied art objects using low-cost industrial glass. In the mid-Eighties, his understanding of context, the direct use of materials and the combination in his furnishing designs of contradictory materials and shapes made him a key figure on the international design scene.

Together with limited series works for home furnishing, he received numerous commissions for sculpture and architectural projects in both iron and glass. In 1989 he moved to his current studio in Hythe Road to allow better organisation of his contemporary volume of work.

FIAM, founded by Vittorio Livi in 1973, designs, develops and produces items of furniture in curved glass, creating them through a combination of craftsmanship and industrial processes, effectively merging tradition and innovation, hand-crafting and design.

Vittorio Livi came to know and appreciate glass from a very young age. Solid and fragile, natural and artificial, ancient and industrial all at the same time, glass is a mass of seeming contradictions, and Livi loved it for just that, as well as for its practical qualities. Glass is environmentally friendly and hygienic: it may look simple, because of its transparency, but both its chemistry and physics are in fact very complex. And this material of vast potential was virtually only used for the production of small accessories or ornaments in the world of furniture.

And so in the young Vittorio Livi’s creative mind, a dream began to take shape: glass would become a unique star in the world of fine design, being used to produce items of furniture which would be astonishingly solid yet beautifully transparent; design items which would rise above the age of their production, untouched by the passing years, spaces and fashions.

Coffee table

20mm-thick curved glass with hand sculptured legs composed of 19 single 20mm-thick glass elements glued one on the other

SPECIFICATIONS

Width 148cm, depth 70cm, height 40cm
82kg
Total load capacity: 150kg
Note: this product is HEAVY and FRAGILE, please make adequate arrangements for the reception, or use our professional "white glove" delivery service

Made in Italy

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