Black Marquina Marble Eros Console by Angelo Mangiarotti for Skipper, Italy, 1970s

Designed by Angelo Mangiarotti for Skipper from the Eros series, iconic black or Nero Marquina marble console table with top fitted on two conical bases, Italy, 1971. This elegant console table has beautiful subtle veining throughout the stark black marble with organic soft curves throughout. This modernist console is the larger floating elliptical model and is from the original 1971 production for Skipper. Original Skipper label affixed to the underside.

This console is in absolute very good original condition, you will enjoy this unique object for many years in a beautiful location. Given Mangiarotti's research on furniture without joints, this console table was an example of the result of a gravity interlocking design in which the console top because of its weight stably fits into the truncated conical legs. The word Eros refers to the male-female coupling of this interlocking solution. It is truly an ingenious and elegant design.

Literature: Beppe Finessi, Su Mangiarotti: Architettura, Design, Scultura, Milan, 2002, pp. 182- 185
Giuliana Gramigna and Paola Biondi, Il design in Italia dell”arredamento domestico, Turin, 1999, p. 294, fig. 2
Giuliana Gramigna, Repertorio del design italiano 1950-2000 per l’arredamento domestico, volume 1, Turin, 2003, p. 192.