1946 Wall Cabinet

1946 is the year that the Sardinian artist Costantino Nivola - recently escaped from Europe and transplanted to New York - encountered Le Corbusier, a meeting that would influence each of them for years to come. This cabinet collection embraces the union between their creative minds by recalling the minimalist sensuality in some of Nivola’s most famous works, and applying the simplicity and purity of Le Corbusier’s architectural aesthetic to the cabinet structure hidden behind. 
 
The bronze handles are a particular homage to this duo: the shape is an abstraction of a small, found sculpture we keep in our studio made from a tree trunk that had grown around a chain-link fence. After making various molds, we asked the artisans La Nuova Fucina to produce this same shape in bronze, using an antique method of sand-casting - a technique that became central to Nivola’s work as he grew into creating large, architectural sculptural panels in the 1950’s.