London, UK

“Resting our hands on a wood desk or wood drawer seen as a celestial sphere like the merging of the sky and earth. This makes our thoughts if we so wish: brighter, lighter, able to take flight and less bound to matter.” — Claudio Silvestrin, architect & designer.

Italian architect and designer Claudio Silvestrin creates a state of the art, solid desk made of wood for Promemoria.

The project has been awarded a 2021 Good Design Award by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.

The essence and characteristic of this solid wood desk, rigorously absent of right angles, is that there is a hidden drawer carved in an enormous sphere of solid pear wood that slots into the surface of the desk, supporting the desk itself.

The other characteristic, of no less importance, is the intentional absence of right angles, allowing the shape and the material (the walnut top and the pear sphere) to be perceived as weightless as if they were suspended in pure space.

Project: Cosmic Desk
Designers: Claudio Silvestrin, Claudio Silvestrin Architects
Manufacturer: Promemoria Sozzi Arredamenti SpA