On Wednesday 27th March 2019, PIASA will present its Italian Design sale where several pieces from the Milanese studio B.B.P.R. will be presented among the great names of Italian design. Created in 1932 by Gianluigi Banfi (1910-1945), Lodovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso (1909-2004), Enrico Peressittu (1908-1976), Enesto Nathan Rogers (1909-1969), it is above all a studio of architects, planners and designers. Their contribution to the development of Rationalism is fundamental.
Lot 81 - B.B.P.P.R. (Lodovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti, Ernesto Nathan Rogers)
Pair of armchairs
Walnut and velvet
Estimate: 12 000 - 180 000 €
On the occasion of Milan's ninth triennial, they are organizing an exhibition called "The Shape of Usefulness" (with Francesco Buzzi Ceriani and Max Hubert). In the field of design, they create highly innovative furniture such as the walnut, brass and coloured opaque glass floor lamp from 1959 presented at this sale.
Lot 31 - ƒ B.B.P.P.R. (Lodovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti, Ernesto Nathan Rogers)
Floor lamp
Walnut, brass and coloured opaque glass
Estimate: 15 000 - 20 000 €
After the war, which led to the death of Gianluigi Banfi and the exile of Ernest Nathan Rogers, they consolidated their dominant position in the modernist movement, particularly during the ninth triennial in Milan in 1951. For the first time, an Italian professional studio was organized according to a division of labour model linked to the Anglo-Saxon model and, consequently, to the current design firms.
Lot 33 - B.B.P.P.R. (Lodovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti, Ernesto Nathan Rogers), attributed to Table
Table
Wood, lacquered metal and brass
Date of creation: 1950s
Estimate: 4 000 - 6 000 €
The projects were designed from the outset through collective discussions, which resulted in the identification of a shared project line. The studio had different types of collaborators: architects and masters of art, surveyors and engineers, as well as other young collaborators playing the role of designers.
The furniture of the B.B.P.P.R. studio is inseparable from its architectural creation: the functionalism of the refined lines, the use of industrial materials, and the work on volume are combined with the massive concrete structures of the buildings. The pair of Giuletta chairs is a fine example of the elegance of this collective work, with its refined and refined style.
Lot 48 - B.B.P.P.R. (Lodovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti, Ernesto Nathan Rogers)
Giuletta
Pair of armchairs
Estimate : 18 000 - 25 000 €
The studio's design work developed particularly in the 1950s, marked by a simple and elegant aesthetic, balancing industrial materials with, for example, leather or velvet, and a graceful use of wood, as shown by the large wall library presented atthis sale.
Lot 43 - B.B.P.P.R. (Lodovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti, Ernesto Nathan Rogers)
Library
Walnut, brass, metal and textile
Estimate: 18 000 - 25000 €
Despite the death of Gianluigi Banfi, the studio's state of mind will always remain the same throughout the decades: "Any creation made by four people is always better than if it had been made alone by each person. We will never reveal the individual authorship of an idea. Every idea is always our idea. »
