Round glass and mirror table 'Cidonio'

Designer: Antonia Astori de Ponti / Manufacturer: Driade / Model: Cidonio / / Antonia Astoriarchitect – designer (1940)

Architect, designer, and entrepreneur: Antonia Astori began her design career within the company Driade, founded with her brother Enrico and Adelaide Acerbi, to which she offered highly professional and creative creations.
For Driade he sets up the exhibition spaces for the salons, promoting the company's visibility. He also designs the shops of Marithè and Francois Girbaud, where, while maintaining his own design constants, he manages to create environments of great character and originality in harmony with the architecture of the place.
Among his works are those in interior architecture and apartment design. Of notable importance are the apartment in via dei Chiostri in Milan from 1976, the villa in Melzo di Milano from 1979, the Milanese apartment in viale Maino, the studio where he works in via Rossini, and the Driade offices in Piacenza.
The year in which Antonia Astori began her career as an architect and designer was 1968, the year in which, together with other colleagues, she hypothesized new architectural and functional solutions in response to the need for an effective organization of spaces.
Driade 1, his first project, in view of the space problems due to overpopulation, was designed essentially to be proposed as an infrastructure for interior spaces. It consists of a system of independent volumes that, although autonomous, are interpenetrable and modular.
The conceptual novelty of the project lies in this idea of ​​a system conceived as an aggregation of independent pieces, volumes made of lacquered chipboard: dividing the internal spaces of an environment with the introduction of volumes.
The idea that with a system it is possible to furnish and divide all the areas of a single environment in a practical and functional way is therefore starting to take hold.