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T-95 desk in walnut, steel painted black and brass feet. Designed by Osvaldo Borsani and made for Tecno, Italy, 1956. 

The desk, a development of models T58 and T90, was created as part of the matching furniture items of the ENI building in San Donato Milanese. 
The two swivelling drawers were designed as an innovative model that satisfies the merging requirements of an evolving office. The T95 is an executive desk that abandons the need for demands in favour of practicality, utility and interrelation. 

The desk up for auction is in very good condition as it has been completely restored. 
Complete in all its parts (except for the key to lock the drawers which is missing), no particular flaws. The item of furniture is sturdy and ready to be used for another 70 years. 
 

Dimensions of top of desk: length 180 cm, depth 86 cm.
Total dimensions: approx. 240 x 115 x H 76 cm.

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Osvaldo Borsani, along with his brother Fulgenzio, was the founder of Tecno. The designer created the company boasting iconic products of Italian design, like the Graphis operating system, the D70 sofa, the P40 lounge chair, the T96 desk and the T1 and T2 side tables.
Osvaldo Borsani started work at a very young age at the family business of making furniture. In 1933 he took part in the fifth Triennale of Milan with his design for the 'Casa Mimima' [Minimal House], which was awarded the silver medal.
In the post-war period, after graduating from the Polytechnic, he formed friendships with numerous artists including Lucio Fontana, Agenore Fabbri, Aligi Sassu, Roberto Crippa, Fausto Melotti and Arnaldo Pomodoro, together with whom he made the most important works of art in the field of furnishings and interior architecture.
In 1953, along with his brother Fulgenzio, he founded Tecno, the great project on which he would continue to work for his whole life, to develop serial production instead of that on design. His first works of industrial design are the P40 adjustable lounge chair (1953 and the D70 sofa with reversible seat.
In the late 1960s, Osvaldo Borsani, together with Marco Fantoni and Valeria Borsani, created the Tecno design centre for the design of new products, the management of large interior architecture projects, the experimentation of new technologies, strategies and tools of business communication. In the same period, Borsani opened up to design for large communities and to the contribution of external designers.

Tecno:

Tecno spa, founded in 1953 by Osvaldo and Fulgenzio Borsani, is an industrial company with production centres in Italy and abroad, which counts on the support of an international network of branches and resellers. The Tecno brand identifies a company that still possesses the initial enthusiasm for engineering and technological innovation and which continues to consider the quality of design, materials and craftsmanship essential, thus allowing its products to overcome challenges that arise from the future. The first Tecno products presented on the European design scene were the D70 sofa and the P40 reclining armchairs, both designed by Osvaldo Borsani in 1954 and 1955 respectively. Two Tecno classics remain the Graphis operating system (designed by Osvaldo Borsani and Eugenio Gerli and presented in 1968 at the Milan Triennale), which marked a turning point in the office furniture market, and the Modus chairs, launched in 1972. In over fifty nine years of experience, Tecno has developed a system of direct communication with customers, architects and facility managers to guarantee services and products from the initial brief to their installation. The true revolutionary aspect of Tecno is due to it offering itself as a project rather than a product company. With tailor made projects, among which we remember the renovated British Museum by architect Norman Foster, the construction of the Agbar tower in Barcelona, designed by Jean Nouvel, and the European Parliament in Brussels, Tecno is able to overcome the structural rigidity of a specific product, to meet the needs of the client, whether it be a company or a designer. And it is by virtue of a privileged relationship with the world of architecture that Tecno can boast a curriculum of creations signed by architects known all over the world including Gae Aulenti, Emilio Ambasz, Ricardo Bofil, Norman Foster, Piero Lissoni, Rafael Moneo, Jean Nouvel, Renzo Piano, Sir Richard Rogers, Luca Scacchetti, Jean Michael Wilmotte and many others. Many of Tecno's products are now exhibited in some of the major museums in the world: the MOMA (New York and San Francisco), the Victoria and Albert Museum (London), the Center Georges Pompidou (Paris), the Neue Sammlung (Monaco), the Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Montreal) and the Milan Triennale.

Italy - 1950-1959 - Brass, Steel, Wood (Walnut)

Osvaldo Borsani - Tecno - Desk - T95

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