Image source: Zanotta — Fenice
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Fenice
Piero Bottoni's 1936 oval table on a single central leg, built from archive drawings
2300 × 730 × 1200 mm
1936
Official product information
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Overview
Fenice is an oval table by Piero Bottoni, model 2574, designed in 1936. Zanotta calls it the first modern table with a central leg. The page marks it as a numbered piece.
Construction
- Frame: Polimex, covered with cement and an acrylic finish
- Treatment: nanotech stain-resistant protection with titanium dioxide
- Shade: grey
- Edition: numbered piece
- Top: oval, on one central leg
Specifications
- Size: 2300 x 1200 x 730 mm
- Designed: 1936
Story
Designed in 1936
Zanotta describes Fenice as the first modern table with a central leg, drawn in 1936, some twenty years before catalogues showed tables on similar supports.
Rebuilt from the Polytechnic's drawings
For the Milan Furniture Fair 2016 Zanotta rebuilt the table from Bottoni's original drawings, held at the Polytechnic University of Milan and supplied by the Archivio Bottoni, and began producing it.
