Wiener GTV Design Thonet - Allegory desk white

Allegory desk, a perfect handy stand for home office spaces and for the most intimate contract solutions, by the Italian-Danish duo GamFratesi, enriches the furniture proposal of Wiener GTV Design with elegance and simplicity. The wide disk in steam-bent solid beech contains a woven cane screen and characterize the desk with the brand’s iconic elements, by linking the countertop with the base’s bent element. The wide-mesh interweaving suggests that this element can be used for multiple applications, which makes it functional as well as aesthetic, enabling additional accessories and memos to be hung on the weave.

Gamfratesi

Studio Gamfratesi was founded in 2006 by Danish architect Stine Gam and Italian architect Enrico Fratesi. The studio is based in Copenhagen. GamFratesi's design draws its creative drive from the fusion of tradition and innovation in an experimental approach to selected materials and techniques. Each with their own traditional background, Stine Gam and Enrico Fratesi draw on classic Danish furniture and craftsmanship, as well as a classical Italian intellectual and conceptual approach. Understanding a tradition and actively addressing it in the workshop allows them to expand it. From this cross-cultural substrate comes a design that respectfully reflects tradition while presenting unique stories, symbols, and associations, often expressed in minimalist ways. GamFratesi aims to create furniture that illustrates the process and techniques that created it and reflects a persistent exploration of the border zone between harmony and disharmony. They participate in numerous exhibitions-Milan, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Cologne, New York, Shanghai, London, Berlin, etc.

Wiener GTV Design Thonet

Michael Thonet (1796-1871) and his five children were the most successful manufacturers of furniture in the Industrial Age. Gebrüder Thonet Vienna GmbH (GTV) has develop edits work in a successful blend of the traditional and the modern, of continuity and renewal, with a new production program that begins by re-editing a series of Gebrüder Thonet classics. At the same time, GTV stands for contemporary furnishing. Advanced production techniques are applied to innovative designs and uses of materials, to create highly sought-after, multipurpose furnishing items. Truly original, up-to-date solutions that integrate well with the more classic products of its catalogue, now reworked.Items such as chair No. 14, of which more than 50 million were made between 1850 and 1930, have gone down in history for their fine design and manufacturing quality, and yet still today excite and attract new generations. GTV always succeeds in finding the perfect combination of tradition and innovation, assisted by continuous research into new, clear-cut, versatile designs.The tangible and intangible intrinsic value of the GTV collection is expressed in the Wiener GTV Design brand, engraved on a coin embedded in the structure of each single piece: a precious detail that certifies authenticity, originality and quality in stable balance between manufacturing and high-level craftsmanship. Inspiring this unique detail was the coin with the image of the brand that was historically spent internally within Thonet production facilities throughout Europe.