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Canaletto vitrine – glass 3-door sideboard clear glass front k 6

THE CONCEPT

The CANALETTO collection is a sculptural study in contrast—between volume and lightness, opacity and translucence. These display units suggest a geometric tension between the solid yet subtly transparent body of the cabinet and the fine mesh-like structure that outlines its flat surfaces, acting as a minimalist extension of the carcase. A deliberate interplay of Bauhaus-inspired industrial geometry and contemporary elegance emerges, underscored by metallic finishes that add a provocative and refined presence.

The ribbed, striped glass diffuses light and colour, softening their outlines into abstract visual rhythms. Colours fade to near invisibility, while repetitive geometric patterns subtly emerge—emphasized by lacquered surfaces and contrasting rear wood panels. The result is poetic and atmospheric, like a translucent curtain hinting at the objects within.

TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION

The CANALETTO glazed glass collection consists of a focused yet distinctive series of pieces. The upper structure is fully glazed—front and sides—with vertically ribbed glass panels. The wide spacing of the ridged pattern alternates in relief, revealing hints of interior silhouettes as light shifts across the surface. This interplay allows for partial visibility and heightened mystery.

The doors are glazed flush with smoked, brushed anodized aluminium frames, secured by invisible adhesive beneath a bronze martingale. Internally, the metal shelves are slim, rear-mounted, and lacquered, appearing to float against the back panel, which is available in either dark walnut veneer or lacquer finishes.

Lighting enhances the sensory quality of the collection. In the display unit, four horizontal LED strips are set into the rear panels, each with a smoked diffuser that softens the light and maintains aesthetic integrity even when unlit. A remote-controlled version includes a dimmer to modulate intensity. In the sideboard and 2-door high chest, vertical indirect lighting is embedded at the rear of the interior side panels, casting a soft halo that adds depth and drama to the interior.

The steel base, with slender 12 mm round legs resembling bamboo canes, offers both strength and visual lightness. Finished in bronze lacquer to match the aluminium frames and handles, the base includes adjustable jacks for precise levelling. Height options include 250 mm or 500 mm, depending on the piece.

Tops, shelves, and bottoms are always lacquered, with a curated selection of finishes:
Argile, Bleu Nuit, Brique, Perle, or Plomb.
Back panels may either match or contrast, with the same lacquer options or in dark walnut veneer.

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Meet the designer
Mauro Lipparini

Mauro Lipparini’s intensive activities in the field of industrial design encompass furniture for both home and office, textiles and other products created for numerous companies in Europe and Japan. In terms of architecture and interior design, he focuses mainly on residential and commercial buildings such as corporate headquarters, showrooms, shops, restaurants and exhibition spaces. In addition, he designs and produces advanced image and corporate identity systems ranging from graphics to editorial services and production.

The style of Lipparini, based on pared-down forms and clear, vigorous lines, the characteristics of natural minimalism, is heavily influenced by gaiety of spirit, and an intoxicating sense of aesthetic pleasure and creativity. Through the free use of colours, organic frameworks and original visual ideas, Lipparini broadens the palette of minimalism by converging instantaneousness and the power of this aesthetic quality in new era of maturity and a sense of wellbeing.

For Mauro Lipparini, design is the inevitable tension between aesthetics and function, art and application. He enables a product to become both agreeable and intriguing, a functional or superfluous object to be transformed into one charged with aesthetic sense and semantics, thus enriching the domestic landscape. He enables a space or its ergonomy to come alive with an ever-new relevance. Design engenders desires which will improve the quality of life, it enables us to view progress with increased involvement, it renders the understanding of function and therefore the perception of one’s habitat both passionate and agreeable.

Design is not the application of form like make-up, it is the object in itself, it is the tradition, the culture which enables people to have more or less indirect contact with the intellectually avant-garde by democratising art. It can be more or less poetic, constructive and considered, but it must always push the very limits of risk by forgetting habits and customs.

These considerations form the base of my work and, through simple, vigorous lines, graphic abstractions, compositions and purely geometric decompositions, I am ever on the trail of beauty and pleasure with a view to allying form and function. A natural minimalism of pared-down forms, paying particular attention to materials, colours, surfaces, to thick and thin, light and shade.

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