255 - Aldo Rossi

Aldo Rossi Tabularium 1 Bookcase Black stone 2020 H42 L62 P40 cm The Tabularium, a building in ancient Rome that housed the state archives at the foot of the Capitoline Hill, captured the imagination of Aldo Rossi, an architect of memory and archetypal forms and winner of the 1990 Pritzker Prize. This small black stone bookcase takes its name and concept from the Tabularium: a place of preservation, scaled down to the size of a piece of furniture. The black stone and compact form lend it a monumental gravitas, reminiscent of the elementary volumes found throughout his architecture. An object that embodies Rossi’s conviction that architecture is composed of permanent types.