Ico Parisi & Alexandro Ferrari Pour Mim Roma, Executive Desk, Double Box, Rosewood 1960s

Important Italian executive office desk with double box, manufactured around 1962 by the company MIM Roma Furniture for the designers Ico Parisi and Alexandro Ferrari, a design icon! Table top, panels and drawers made of rosewood veneer, detached legs in cast aluminum and anodized aluminum. Very good condition, note that the key to the drawers is missing.

Ico Parisi was born in Palermo in 1916. He graduated in construction and served his apprenticeship in Giuseppe Terragni's studio. In 1937, he produced a photographic study of the Casa del Fascio for the magazine Quadrante. Its activity is marked by continuous experimentation which consists of incessant research in the fields of architecture, art and design. Between 1948 and 1950, he devoted himself to the study of furniture elements. Crucial encounters with Munari, Fontana (1951), and Melotti profoundly mark his experience. In 1948 he founded, with his wife Luisa Aiani, planner and designer, the studio La ruota which ceased its activity in 1995. In 1954 he won the gold medal of the X Triennale di Milano with the work "Padiglione soggiorno " with Silvio Longhi and Luigi Antonietti. In 1957, he presented the work "Casa per vacanze" at the exhibition "Colori e forme della casa d'oggi", the result of a collaboration with Manlio Rho, Francesco Somaini and Gian Paolo Allevi. He died in Como in 1996.