A TOP… FULL OF MEANING.
Since when it was presented for the first time, at the Furniture Show
in 1979, the table Metafora, drawn by Lella and Massimo Vignelli,
charmed for its aesthetics, for the choice of its forms and its materials,
for no detail is coincidental but everything is linked by a fil rouge of
meanings and historical references. The sphere represents the globe,
our planet, the origin and support of mankind, the pyramid represents
the Egyptian civilization, the first important example of social
organization, the cradle of culture and spirituality, the cylinder made
of travertine re proposes the Roman Empire, the summit of an ancient
world that disastrously collapsed afterwards, this is why the column is
overturned on the ground, the black cube represents the black stone
of Kaaba, at Mecca, the founding element of Islam, another of the
great pillars of mankind.
All these symbols and meanings are gathered into one single setting,
thus merging design, culture and sensitiveness for the human
adventure
