Arcadia

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FUTURE ANTIQUE GALLERY

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Arcadia Table
by Michael Graves, 1996

For information request

DESCRIPTION, DETAILS & DIMENSIONS:
Table in arable with inlays in ebony and columns in black lacquered wood

Dimensions (cm): diameter 111,5 x H 75

CREATOR: Meccani Arredamenti, Cascina (Pisa) Italy

DATE OF MANUFACTURE: 1996

This Work of Design is out of production and not be reproduced in the future

PLACE OF ORIGIN: Handmade in Italy

CONDITION REPORT: Good overall condition, American birdseye maple slightly wavy in places.
Small dents due to use and wear.

The table is very rare , it was part of the "Arcadia" Collection which also included a sideboard , an extendable rectangular table and chairs.

Two similar tables , designed by Michael Graves in 1989 and 2001 , are exhibited in two Museums in USA :

- IMA Indianapolis Museum of Art

- Denver Art Museum

Publications : R. Craig Miller "US Design 1975-2000"

Meccani Archive Documents :

Old photos 90s , Meccani original Catalog , executive projects

- Dorotheum Auction, Arcadia table, 2021
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Arcadia table by Michael Graves, 1996
Micene chair by Ferdinando Meccani, 1978
Ionica floor lamp by Pietro Meccani, 2023
Alobella table lamp by Gianfranco Pasotto, 1979
Painting by Ferdinando Meccani, 1969

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Details Micene chair and table

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Brand, copper plate Meccani - Graves

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"Drawings are not just end products (…). Drawings express the interactions of our minds, eyes and hands"



Michael Graves (1934 - 2015) was a US architect and designer. His career spans over more than forty years, from the mid - 1960s to the years 2000, but his name remains inseparably linked to a precise decade, the 1980s, and to a specific style, Postmodernism.
He rises to fame at the turn of the 1970s, as a member of the so-called New York Five, along side Peter Eisenman (1932), Charles Gwathmey (1938 - 2009), John Hejduk (1929 - 2000) and Richard Meier (1934).
These five figures are associated for the first time in 1969 by Kenneth Frampton, who presents their works jointly at New York's MoMA.
In 1972, the publication of the Volume Five Architects consecrates them as a group.



"What everyone liked about him was that brought back ornament, color and richness into architecture.
He reopened the closed book of classicism without resorting to pastiche, thanks to his wit, invention and judicious borrowing from Le Corbusier.
Modernism, as everyone Knew for a certain fact, was over, so Graves was doing what needed to be done"

(Rowan Moore)