Portello is a bookcase that synthesizes in an original way a series of shapes, materials, aesthetics and functionality. A piece capable of bringing innovative messages and stimuli poised between tradition and innovation, with a high aesthetic quotient. The warm essence of natural walnut creates pleasant contrasts with the opaque lacquered blue parts and the technicality of the folded and perforated sheet metal, respectively for the console, the shelves and the base /
Forma & Funzione, Scienze Museum London, Ed. Silvvia Editrice, p. 35, Year 1990 - Projeteren itlien projeter, Ed. SIM, a cura di Carla Venosta, p. 29, Year 1990 - Going home, a new dinamic approach to italian design, ICE Assoarredo, P. 59. Year 1992 - Il design delle donne, Ed. Arnoldo Mondadori arte, P. 48, Year 1991
Carla VENOSTA (1924-2019) is an artist born in Monza in 1924; she graduated in Architecture at the Milan Polytechnic and began her career as a designer in 1971 dealing with product design, set-ups, craftsmanship. Her name is inextricably linked to ingenious solutions to design problems in the various sectors: design, style and architecture. Among his projects for home and workplace furnishing are those of the Variabile office system (Arflex 1975), the management systems Koré and Portello (Busnelli 1985, 1989), the bookcases Antologia 2 (Tosimobili 1982) and Telemaco ( Alinovi 1993), the Excalibur desk service (De Vecchi, 1989), the Renzo and Lucia table (Bernini 1991), the Le Violon chair with crystal back (Gallotti & Radice, 1992) and the wicker armchair Alice (Vittorio Bonacina , 1996). A very active member of ADI, she was a member of the Steering Committee from 1991 to 1992, she was vice president of ICSID (the current World Design Organization) and she was a member of the board of directors of the Milan Triennale in 1983 and 1992. She has participated in numerous exhibitions, from Design & Design (Milan 1979) to Moi et chez moi, Paris 1990, to Arredo urbano (Milan 1989) and Going Home, London 1991. Two Compasso d'Oro awards for products designed by her: in 1979 for the electromedical Mark 5 for Amplais and in 1981 for the Teknico industrial integrated false ceiling (Tremisol), as well as three Honorable Mentions. Her work as a designer is collected in the volume Carla Venosta. 30 Italian industrial design projects, curated by Gianfranco Farioli, Veronica Voltolina (Milan, Electa, 2007). Established in the field of exhibition design, setting up and planning for the city, Carla Venosta has contributed, also with her political commitment, to enhancing the presence of women in our society. /