MAURIZIO TEMPESTINI ‘RIBBON’ DINING TABLE FOR SALTERINI

Maurizio Tempestini's iconic 'Ribbon" dining height table for The John B. Salterini Co. MAURIZIO TEMPESTINI (1908 – 1960) completed his studies in Florence at the Porta Romana Art Institute, from which he obtained a Diploma in Industrial Decoration in 1929.  He made his name as a successful interior architect and designer of furniture and lighting, as well as a talented set designer for several Italian theatrical productions in the early 1930s.  Tempestini’s first known work appears to be the furnishing of Casa Vallecchi in Florence (1931-1932), for which he also carried out the wall decorations. In the first half of the 1930s he designed furnishings and objects for Cantagalli Ceramics in Florence and for the Cappellin and Seguso Glassworks in Murano.  In 1934 he collaborated with Gatteschi and Poggiolo on the external transformation of the Palazzo delle Esposizioni at the Parterre di San Gallo in Florence, on the occasion of the Littoriali Exhibition. In 1938 Tempestini formed a studi