*This product will be delivered in the English version , which may differ from the product image. 3 Colours are available white, brown, black, green / English Designed by Enzo Mari 1967 Inspired by railway signs
Dimensions 17 w x 16 h cm
Material Base - ABS Numbers | Dates - Lithographic PVC
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Enzo Mari was born in Novara in 1932 and studied at the Brera Academy in Milan. He worked for Danese for decades, and the two names are hard to separate.
His Serie della Natura reduced everyday subjects — an apple, a pear — to flat symbols, printed as silkscreens from 1961 so that art could be made in quantity rather than as unique objects.
The Timor perpetual calendar of 1967 applies the same thinking to a desk object: moulded ABS, flipping cards, nothing decorative. It is held by MoMA and the Cooper Hewitt, and Danese has kept it in production ever since.
Moulded ABS and flipping cards. Nothing on it is decorative, which is why it has stayed in production since 1967.
Enzo Mari was born in Novara in 1932 and studied at the Brera Academy in Milan. He worked for Danese for decades, and the two names are hard to separate.
His long-running Serie della Natura reduced everyday subjects — an apple, a pear — to flat symbols, printed as silkscreens from 1961 onward so that art could be produced in quantity rather than as unique objects. 'Tre, la Mela e la Pera' dates from 1963.
The Timor perpetual calendar of 1967 applies the same thinking to a desk object: moulded ABS, flipping cards, nothing decorative. It is held by MoMA and the Cooper Hewitt, and Danese has kept it in production ever since.
A Milanese editor of objects since 1957, Danese published the small, exact pieces of Bruno Munari and Enzo Mari.
Danese has published design objects from Milan since 1957. It worked less as a factory than as an editor: Bruno Munari's Cubo ashtray and Enzo Mari's 16 animali puzzle both date from that first year.
Mari's Bilancia calendar and Camicia vase followed. The house describes its work as the balance between culture, authorship and business, and is today part of Artemide. The pieces stay small, exact and made to be used.
