"transepoca" wooden coffee table by carmelo la gaipa, italy 2018

This is a wooden coffee table that features screwable steel legs and a printed top. In mint condition and ready to become a piece in a home. "carmelo la gaipa, an independent author of ideas that are then put into images, has always been dealing with the three-dimensional aspect of an object. Starting from the object trouvé, he modifies its form and function using unusual materials and arranging them to a modernist aesthetic. La gaipa makes a copy-and-paste operation, drawing from history in an extremely ironic way, deconstructing existing forms and creating new ones with pop, post-popular endings, addressed to a blurred crowd of buyers /amateurs, diviners of new design that are always looking for innovations to satisfy. The same goes for the marketplace, carmelo la gaipa and his current personal research. " Rita vitali rosati. Measure: width 150 cm. Depth 75 cm. Height 45 cm.