Designed by Giovanni Ausenda, Guido Baldo Grossi, and Gianni Gavioli for Ny Form of Bologna, the Shilling table is among the most resolved expressions of Italian glamour modernism. Dark mirrored glass panels — inlaid with geometric brass strips and set into a brass-edged frame — rest on a black lacquered pedestal base engineered to create a near-floating effect. The recessed central well, originally conceived as a dry bar, reads as a compositional device as much as a functional one. Produced in limited numbers by Ny Form in the early 1970s, the Shilling remains a benchmark of the era's appetite for material contradiction: reflective and opaque, geometric and sensuous, minimal in form and luxurious in finish.
Designed by Giovanni Ausenda, Guido Baldo Grossi, and Gianni Gavioli for Ny Form of Bologna, the Shilling table is among the most resolved expressions of Italian glamour modernism. Dark mirrored glass panels — inlaid with geometric brass strips and set into a brass-edged frame — rest on a black lacquered pedestal base engineered to create a near-floating effect. The recessed central well, originally conceived as a dry bar, reads as a compositional device as much as a functional one. Produced in limited numbers by Ny Form in the early 1970s, the Shilling remains a benchmark of the era's appetite for material contradiction: reflective and opaque, geometric and sensuous, minimal in form and luxurious in finish.
