The Windrose
The Windrose
For "The Windrose", a design born from the technical need to create a workstation for eight people in continual eye contact, aesthetically and creatively in its ability to represent a big passion for the sea shared both by the artist and the client. The evolution of the themes led to the concept of the project and related scale prototype, a polygonal table consisting of only curves, inscribed inside a rhombus of 6.00x4.80 meters of diagonals, representing a windrose where cardinal points and winds are correctly ordered.
The Windrose is composed as follows: five monolithic legs shaped as keels made of copper and wood and placed on rhombus diagonals by engraving each leg hands the writing of one of the four cardinal points: North, East, South, West; three legs made of tubular structure in brushed iron and subsequently copper-plated in a galvanic bath such as the tie-bars at the base and the four chassis they hold the table tops; four table tops, two of them made on copper and two on wood, which still by engraving hand the writing of the corresponding winds: Grecale, Scirocco, Libeccio, Mistral. In the original project and its scale prototype, the table tops surfaces were planned in copper, iron, glass and wood but, for client's requirements, definitely executed in wood and copper.
