La Basilica
Brands
Designers
Dimensions
L 97/152 cm - P 78.5 cm - H 74 cm
Finiture
Natural Ash
Year
1978
The La Basilica table, designed by Mario Bellini in 1978 for Cassina, is a rectangular table in solid wood that reflects a solid linear form, embodying the new design language developed by Bellini in the 1970s. The top is composed of three or four axes, supported by six or eight legs respectively, all of the same width as the axes of the top, creating a visual harmony between the structural components.
Cassina
Cassina was founded in 1927 in Meda (Milan) by Cesare and Umberto Cassina, inaugurating industrial design in Italy in the 1950s. The brand's identity is found in an original union where technological aptitude is closely linked to traditional craftsmanship. Cassina maintains its ancient heart, the carpentry, the linchpin of all its workmanship. It is characterised by a transversal culture of absolute quality, which makes each Cassina piece unique.
Mario Bellini
Mario Bellini, born in 1935 in Milan, is an internationally renowned architect and designer. He graduated in architecture in 1959 at the Polytechnic of Milan, where he was a student of Gio Ponti. In the 1960s he began his activity in the world of design, opening a professional studio. From 1963 he became chief design consultant at the Olivetti company. He has received the Golden Compass Award eight times and twenty-five of his works are in the permanent design collection of MoMA in New York. Since the 1980s Bellini has dedicated himself almost entirely to architecture, designing numerous buildings all over the world.
