Cabina dell'Elba

Prototype

Aldo Rossi, 1980

“Beach huts are a recurring theme in my designs because I have always found a sort of synthesis or reduction of architecture in them. I like the idea of them becoming an interior landscape” (Aldo Rossi). Hence the design for a walk-in wardrobe that reflects their shape. Presented at the 1980 Salone del Mobile, the prototype stage and only 4 specimens were ever produced.

Design Aldo Rossi, 1980

Design

Aldo Rossi

Aldo Rossi (Milan, May 3, 1931 - Milan, September 4, 1997) was one of the greatest Italian architects of the 1980’s. His Molteni Group collaboration marked his passage from masterful architect to an industrial designer. He created models and furnishings for the Museum of Maastricht, the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and the reconstruction of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice. Aldo Rossi designed items that were destined to become icons of the 20th century.

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"Perhaps it is snobbery but the more I see the world, the more I feel being a citizen of it and the more I want to go back to the old way of things"

Aldo Rossi