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Calamo
Gabriele Rosa's slim steel desk with a cowhide storage space under a drop-leaf lid
1300 × 760 × 450 mm
2013
Official product information
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Overview
Calamo is a desk by Gabriele Rosa, model 2730, dated 2013. Zanotta presents it as a light desk-console table with reduced sizes and a very thin top, made for a contemporary public.
Construction
- Frame and top: varnished steel in talc, graphite or black
- Leather: cowhide (pigmentato 90) on the top and in the storage space
- Storage: opened by a drop-leaf lid
Specifications
- Size: 1300 x 450 x 760 mm
- Designed: 2013
Story
An essential desk
Zanotta describes Calamo as an essential element of furniture, in function and in appearance, that could fit anywhere in the home, not an old-style desk with drawers overflowing with paper.
Reduced sizes, cowhide storage
Gabriele Rosa says he kept reduced sizes, a light frame and a very thin top, and added a storage space made entirely of cowhide as the distinctive mark of the project.
