San Pietro Mussolino, VI, Italy
Along with Lithos Design, Italian designer Rafaello Gialiotto creates the Elitra dining table, a magnetic and refined designer dining table combining the elegance of marble with brass details.
This 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.
Elitra merges the uniqueness of natural stone with industrialization processes and mass production that allow for the maximum savings of the material.
The result is a table that becomes the emblem of the respect and exaltation of the natural material, further emphasizing the charm and appeal of the matter.
A magnetic table, characterized by a hollow conical base obtained by the assembly of three identical stone elements, was designed sequentially and distinguished by the presence of two evident edges folded outwards with softened borders.
The shape of the marble elements and the choice of interposing brass bars between them, favor the mechanical union of the entire base, which is in turn reinforced by evident studs, also made of brass.
In addition to the round version, Elitra is also proposed in Elitra XL, a version with an elliptical top where the parts of the base from three become four, with two of them being concave and the other two convex.
Here, in a play of geometries and sizes, the marble components, mirroring each other two by two, manage to support the top measuring 240 cm (94 31/64″) in length and 120 cm (47 1/4″) in width.
Prestigious historic marbles are combined with a tempered smoked glass top that makes the structure, the chromatic composition, and the brass details of the hollow base visible.
Elitra is proposed entirely in calacatta viola, verde Tinos, grand antique marble in polished finish, or in palissandro brown marble in a honed finish.
Elitra XL is proposed entirely in palissandro brown in a honed finish.
Elitra table is conceived and designed with a sustainable productive approach aimed to the maximum savings of the matter.
Industrial stone design, know-how, and technological skills have made it possible to separate the material, developing complementary and multiple forms, reducing waste to the minimum.
Project: Elitra
Designers: Raffaello Galiotto, Studio Raffaello Galiotto
Manufacturer: Lithos Design
