CARLO ENRICO RAVA

摘要

The slender consoles that Carlo Enrico Rava designed in the late 1940s have carved sinuous forms, with curves so willowy that they appear to sprout from the floor like vines. "There is an organic linearity in these pieces that almost references Art Nouveau in a strange way," says Domenico Raimondo, a senior specialist for design at Phillips auction house. But Rava's creations were not always so delicate. Studying his seductive midcentury output, it's hard to comprehend that he first rose to prominence in the 1920s as one of the fathers of Italian Rationalism, a muscular, function-focused style of architecture that prized basic geometries stripped of all decoration.