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“An aesthetic that comes from the use,from the original arrangement of thematerial”Antonio Sant’Elia | Futurist Architect

INDICE | INDEX

04. The project05. Modular and components07. Sectional and revolving system09. Modularity of the system11. The excellence of the execution14. The design21. Technical guide22. Standard colors page

SANT’ELIA | REVOLVING LIBRARY

An idea that takes shape. A tribute to the design, to the informal and relational

space that describes the domestication of the third millennium. An original

adjustment of the shape to the function in order to give life to a furnishing

object that makes the most of the everyday experience.Frosio interprets the contemporary living trends,

and gives life to a new convivial domestication,

where the house is opened to the others and

it is lived as a relational space. For this reason

we believe that the concept of an object

overcomes its own touchable features and it

extends itself till including the relationships

that it generates and the interaction ways that

make unique the experience of the use. Frosio

products are modular furnishings, they are able

to be appreciated not only for their aesthetical

and useful qualities, for the design efficacy

and the artificial quality, but also for the signal

value that they have inside.

The adjustable winglets represent a strong

feature of Sant’Elia because they allow to modify

the capacity of the system in accordance with

the needs of who uses the library.

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INFORMAL DESIGN

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SANT’ELIA | THE PROJECT

The name “Sant’Elia” is a tribute to the Italian

master of the Futurism, from his visionary

architectures derives the initial inspiration of

the design of the object. The project purpose is

to create a concrete and flexible shape,

conceptually referable to the concept of

“admirable machinery” for the books or

magazines collection.

Sant’Elia library is a revolving library that turns

around its own axis, besides it is absolutely

modular because it is composed of several

sections, it has a huge capacity and storage, it

finds its own maximum aesthetic expression in

the series compositions of numerous models.

The library is fixed to the ceiling through a

fischer and is fixed to the floor through an anti

slipping base. Sant’Elia rotates thanks to a

suspension bearing (upper and lower). The main

frame is the aluminium tubular. Accessories,

shelves and covering are available in various

materials (wood, acrylic), finishes (opaque, gloss).

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MODULAR

Sant’Elia library is completely modular, you can compose

it as you like it, both for the materials and the colours,

but considering the warehouse availability. So you can

make it up, for example, with hexagonal wooden or acrylic

shelves, wooden or acrylic winglets and with or without

covering tubular elements with decorative shutters, in

this way you will leave the aluminium main frame at

sight, it depends of oneself taste.

COMPONENTS

Multi layers wood, Mdf or acrylic for the shelves

Aluminium main frame

Covering tubular elements with horizontal decorative

shutters

Multi layers wood, Mdf or acrylic for the adjustable stuck-

books winglets

Aluminium nuts for the fixing and the regulation of the

winglets

Basement with sphere bearing

Highness available

High version 2,4 | 2,7 | 3,1 | 4,2 m

Low version 1,2m

Maximum highness | 4,2 m

Minimum highness | 2,2 m

Floor Om | 0 m

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SECTIONAL

Sant’Elia is a library that starts from the ceiling and ends

to the floor. The only fixing needed is to the ceiling and

the system can be adjustable in different highnesses

available, from a minimum of 2,2m till a maximum of

4,2 m, through patented tubular sections and telescopic

system.

REVOLVING SYSTEM

Sant’Elia rotes around its own axis in both senses thanks

to an innovative revolving system that makes the library

ideal for corner places. Beside saving precious space, the

rotation of the library enriches it of functionality and

simplicity in the use.

Steel nuts andscrew threadfor regulation

Hexagonal shelfwith bearingplane

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Clockwise rotation

Anticlockwise rotation

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MODULARITY OF THE SYSTEM

The moving fixing of the winglets allows to storage a

variable quantity of books or magazines. The winglets

can be regulated through a simple and instantaneous

act. The rotation of the library on its own axis allow to

have a immediate access to all the books.

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THE EXCELLENCE OF THE EXECUTION

Frosio believes that an thorough execution is implicit in the production of a good furnishing. For this reason the

high performances of the materials used and the extreme precision in working and assembling processes are the

premise for the achievement of the excellence aim contained inside the project. The composite rigour, the continuous

researching of new technologies must beside be added to, in order to achieve a continuous improvement of the

product.

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THE DESIGN

Sant’Elia is the result of a long research and prototype

in order to get a innovative product from the point of

view both of stylish and of flexibility and adaptability on

use, according to the principle of the innovative design.

Total modularity, integrability of the components,

essentiality of the shapes. These are the principles that

have led the designers Roberto De Giorgis and Agostino

Borinelli in all the phases of a project that is perfectly

set both in the domestic concept and in the contract one.

The designers

Roberto De Giorgis

Is born in Palazzolo sull’Oglio on October 15th 1968, he

graduated at the Politecnico in Milan with a planning

architectural thesis on a congressional- expository centre

for the Oglio Valley. He collaborates with Prof. Arch. Enrico

Mantero as a temporary assistant during the Architectural

Planning course at the Politecnico in Milan. After an

apprenticeship and a beginning of the professional activity

based on the architectural planning and the interiors

design, he adds to the activity of his studio, in a

continuative way, the Industrial Design, working in

collaboration with Arch. Agostino Borinelli, with whom

he founds the present work group DB&C Architects.

Agostino Borinelli

Is born in Sondrio on December 25th 1970. He graduated

at the Politecnico in Milan with a project concerning “An

alternative for the re-qualification of the ex- Scalo

Merci in Porta Vittoria and the study of a musical space

for Milan”. He collaborates with the Architectural Studies

Centres of Prof. Ing. Arch. Marco Dezzi Bardeschi both

for the new buildings planning and for the preservation

and the recovery of historical monuments. In the interiors

Architecture and Design concerning he collaborates, for

a long time, as a consultant at P.E.C. Society in Siviglia,

Spain, planning and realizing lots of spaces for a

commercial use. He plans and realizes single furnishing

elements.

DB&C Studio

The Studio devotes itself to the academic and professional

experimentation of an Architecture, Furnishing and Design

interpretation, based on the model of the Modern

Movement. The conceptual heritage of the Rationalism,

used as a composite criterion, is translated in the attention

to innovative but functional solutions. In particular in

the Design and in the Interiors Design is searched the

synthesis between formal essentiality and expressive value

in the modular compositions and in the technological

element, using advanced ways of working and materials.

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CENTRAL ROOM SANT'ELIA

In the central room version, Sant'Elia adjusts itself to a

series of alternative uses and contests, a particular

attention must be given to the contract and to the

common spaces, for example: hotels halls, waiting rooms,

concept stores and all those spaces in which it is necessary

to exhibit, in a banal but immediate way, books, informative

material, magazines, etc.

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INFORMAL DESIGN

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CEILING H_320 UP

FRONTAL PROSPECTS AND HIGHNESS | SANT’ELIA

DIMENSIONS

TECHNICAL GUIDE

ACCESSORIES

CENTRAL ROOM SANT’ELIA

BOOKSTAND ELEMENT

BOOKHOLDING ELEMENT

* Available only for central room

version Sant’Elia

BOOKSTAND ELEMENT*

CEILING FIXING WITHROLLER BEARING

BASAMENT WITHSPHERE BEARING

CEILING H_270 UP CEILING H_240 UP

SHELF ORBOOKSTAND ELEMENT

MAGAZINES STANDELEMENTS

THE HEXAGONALSHELVES, THE COVERINGAND THE MAIN FRAMEARE THE SAME USEDALSO FOR THE CEILINGLIBRARY VERSION

BASAMENT WITHSPHERE BEARING

HEXAGONAL SHELF PLAN

MILLINGS FORACCESSORIESHOLDING

UPPER VIEW

LATERAL VIEW

LOWER VIEW

LOWER VIEW

BACK VIEW

LATERAL VIEW

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COLOURS AND FINISHES

GLOSS POLISHED WOOD

White

Red

Polished

Satin

ALUMINIUM

ACRYLIC

Black

White

Red

Orange

Bleu/Yellow/Red

MULTILAYERS WOOD

Oak

Wenge

Black

White

Transparent

COMPONENTS

Multi layers wood, Mdf or acrylic for the shelves

Aluminium main frame

Covering tubular elements with horizontal decorative shutters

Multi layers wood, Mdf or acrylic for the adjustable stuck-books

winglets

Aluminium nuts for the fixing and the regulation of the winglets

Basement with sphere bearing

Highness available

High version 2,4 | 2,7 | 3,1 | 4,2 m

Low version 1,2m

MULTILAYERS WOOD OR MDF

STANDARD COLORS PAGE*

SPECIFICATIONS

MULTILAYERS OR MDF VERSION

All the indicated colours are available for the hexagonal shelves, for

the winglets and for the covering elements.

ACRYLIC VERSION

All the indicated colours are available for the hexagonal shelves and

for the winglets. (in this version the aluminium tubular frame is

always at sight, no covering are foreseen)

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OPAQUEBLACK

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OPAQUERED, YELLOW, BLUE

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CREDITS

Concept by Inside Brand

www.insidebrand.it

Photo by Caleidostudio

www.caleidostudio.it

Printed in April 2007

Sant’Elia is a community patent registered

at no. 622006 on 11/16/2006

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