Rexite - Enzo Mari - Magazine rack - Press - Chromed steel

This magazine rack 'PRESS' was designed by Enzo Mari in 1999 for Rexite Milano.

'PRESS' is a minimalist and discreet design that focuses on essential shapes, expressed by the simple lines traced by a chrome-plated steel rod. With this PRESS magazine, Mari has incorporated ideas from artistic practices and crafts. The elegant curves with a classic look symbolize art. Meanwhile the refined steel techniques used in the production of this magazine holder symbolize craftsmanship. These two characteristics make this a typical and in some sense autobiographical object of Mari's design, since Mari represented quality, art and craftsmanship, reducing the product to an essence that opposes the idea that good design is a privilege for the well-off.

The stand is in perfect condition and has not been used before.


Enzo Mari
Born in 1932 in Novara, after attending the Brera Academy in Milan, from 1957 he actively dedicates himself to industrial design. Over the course of his career he created for numerous Italian and foreign companies more than 1500 projects, many of which are part of museum collections around the world, including MoMA in New York, the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome and the Triennale Design Museum in Milan. Enzo Mari was president of ADI from 1976 to 1979 and consultant to the city of Milan for urban furniture from 1980 to 1984. In 2002 the Politecnico di Milano awarded him the Honorary Degree in Industrial Design. He won more than forty national and international awards, including four Compassi d’Oro (in 1979 for the Delfina chair) and in 2011 the Compasso d’Oro for lifetime achievement. In 2001 he published the book Progetto e passione which analyzes design within a broader cultural horizon. Mari is the author of over 1500 objects, produced for major Italian companies. Among these are Zanotta, Driade, Alessi, Danese, Artemide, Olivetti, Ideal Standard, Flou, Estel, Lema and Robots. Enzo Mari died on 19 October 2020, at the age of 88, and together with his wife, became a victim of the Covid pandemic.