Arabesco Coffee Table, 1949

Arabesco coffee table by Carlo Mollino for Zanotta.

Created as a homage to Carlo Mollino’s original design in 1949, this small table features bent plywood frame veneered with natural oak or black varnished oak.

As one of the most celebrated designs of the twentieth century, the Arabesco, embodies the innovative materiality and sculptural elegance of the period. 

Mollino wrote of the design, the “hole [is] to be traced in curved wood” in order to remove mass and visually lighten the object, resulting in a curvaceous and fluid form.