Silvio Coppola graduated in Milan Polytechnic with a degree in architecture.
As an architect he designed buildings in Baghdad, university towns in Zaire, housing and hotel facilities in several Italian cities, becoming architect-designer for the European Development Fund of the EEC in 1965. In the fields of interior design, industrial design and visual communication, Coppola works as a consultant and collaborator with major Italian and foreign industries including Bayer, Bernini, Montecatini, Monteschell, Zucchi, Cinzano, Alessi, Cassina, Parmalat, and Feltrinelli.
In 1967 he founded with Munari, Grignani and others the research group Exhibition design, operating particularly in the field of pre-design.
The table model 611 was designed in early '60s and it has with wooden frame and top with movable compartment and glazed ceramic storage elements, that can be used for sharing appetizers or food with some guests, or even as storag for office's tools.
Good condition, fully original.
Dimensions of each stoage element: 7 x 20 x 20 cm (2 pieces in total).
Published in:
Domus, n. 436, marzo 1966;
G. Gramigna, Repertorio del design italiano 1950-1980, p. 207, Mondadori, 1985.