X1993.113.1

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 95; Larghezza: 300; Profondità: 104

legno di noce

A member of the artistic group formed around “The House,” a magazine of “aesthetics, decorum and government of the modern home” founded in 1908 by Edoardo De Fonseca, Duilio Cambellotti shared with the other exponents of the movement, including Vittorio Grassi and Umberto Bottazzi, the inspiration for the aesthetic models of the Arts & Crafts: especially in the reevaluation of traditional craft techniques-such as the abolition of the use of nails and assembly by joints-that made it possible to achieve, through a simplified construction process, a rigorous and linear decoration. The Bench of the Helms, executed at the Royal National Institute of Industrial Instruction at San Michele in Rome to a design by Cambellotti, was first exhibited in 1925 at the Second International Exhibition of Decorative Arts in Monza in one of the five rooms of the Roman section, the so-called “sala del mare,” set up by architect Alessandro Limongelli. Wooden bench.