Gino Levi Montalcini and Giuseppe Pagano, Desk, chair and bookcase, designed for the Palazzo Gualino, Turin

circa 1929
Buxus-covered wood, painted wood.
Desk: 80 x 140 x 74 cm (31 1/2 x 55 1/8 x 29 1/8 in.)
Chair: 80.2 x 45 x 46 cm (31 5/8 x 17 3/4 x 18 1/8 in.)
Library unit: 217.3 x 140.5 x 49 cm (85 1/2 x 55 3/8 x 19 1/4 in.)
Manufactured by Cartiere Giacomo Bosso, Turin, Italy.

Provenance:
Palazzo Gualino, Turin

Literature:
'La nuova costruzione moderna per uffici, in Torino, sul Corso Vittorio Emanuele architettata da G. Pagano-Pogatschnig, e G. Levi-Montalcini', Domus, no. 30, June 1930, pp. 88-89 for similar examples
Irene de Guttry and Maria Paola Maino, Il mobile déco italiano 1920-1940, Bari, 1988, p. 189 for similar examples
Emilio Garda, 'I materiali artificiali dell'invenzione', Domus, no. 839, July/August 2001, p. 12 for the desk and chair