Turner Bookcase

Overview

Turner is a freestanding revolving bookcase, 123 cm high and 65 cm wide, by Gianfranco Frattini. Three levels rise from a circular base, and 21 dividing panels, seven on each level, can be positioned along grooves in the shelves.

Construction

• Structure: an internal metal supporting structure enclosed in a central column of birch plywood panels veneered in Canaletto walnut
• Shelves: birch plywood with solid Canaletto walnut inserts; the grooves hold the dividing panels
• Dividing panels: birch plywood with Canaletto walnut veneer and solid wood edges
• Top: birch plywood with a double layer of Canaletto walnut, crowned by a circular rotating surface in MDF covered in Pelle Frau® leather or saddle-leather
• Base: circular, black-painted steel
• Rotation: two self-lubricating bushings let the base with the shelves and the top surface rotate independently

Specifications

W 65 x H 123 cm

A reissue of Modello 823

The Turner swivel bookcase first saw the light in 1963 as Frattini's Modello 823. The Poltrona Frau reissue is modernised in its materials and developed with philological respect for the original.

English bookcases and a building of three floors

Frattini took the classic English freestanding bookcase, made for the books closest to the heart, and gave it a cutting-edge construction. The three-level structure rises vertically like a building, and every floor has grooves that act as rails. Dividing panels can be added or removed in these rails, so the combination of solids and voids can change as often as desired.