Andrea Branzi Polinius flower stand

Italian architect and designer Andrea Branzi (1938–2023) was interested in how the practice of design could be disconnected from the methods of mass production that were gaining traction in 1960s Italy. The co-founder of avant-garde studio Archizoom and a friend of Ettore Sottsass, his highly narrative works often juxtaposed raw, natural elements with artificiality. The prescient No-Stop City (1969), his ‘fluid metropolis’, took modernist architecture to its logical conclusion.

Part of Branzi’s Animali Domestici collection, this postmodern plinth recalls the ridges of bamboo. The four lacquered steel tubes support a wooden top with a wide red stripe. ‘Andrea Branzi’ is signed on the underside.

In good vintage condition, with some water damage and scratching to the top surface.

H130.5 W32cm

SQ026