Cumano

Outstanding redesign operations aimed at reviving ordinary objects and adding up-to-date details to their well-established shape: a typical feature of Achille Castiglioni’s work, who often curiously collected those objects, the same on which his friend Munari would have bestowed the Compasso d’Oro a Ignoti (Golden compass award to unknown). This occurred, for instance, to the typical Paris bistro three-legged table, reinterpreted with Cumano in its essentials and design details, such as the joint, which was designed in a contemporary material to ease movement on the painted surface (without wearing it out), and the detail of a hole on the table top, which allowed not only to fold the table, as already possible, but also to hang it (on the wall, thanks to a special hook).