Garda

When in 1949 Ignazio Gardella began working on one of his most famous pieces of architecture, the apartment complex at Via Marchiondi 7 in Milan, designed with Anna Castelli Ferrieri and Roberto Menghi, every last detail was skilfully crafted. Olivari was involved for the production of the door handles, and this collaboration – centred on an idea of architecture in which every part, no matter how small, contributed toward the aim of an organic whole – led to the creation of the Garda series. For its clean lines and lean visual language, Gardella declared to have taken inspiration from the German functionalist architect Ferdinand Kramer, who had participated under the project leader Ernst May in the new city plan for Frankfurt (Das Neue Frankfurt, 1925-1930) by designing a utilitarian, geometric door handle. Gardella studied the proportions of his own handle by starting with a cylindrical element that progressively widens toward the end of the lever, taking on a conical shape with the same elementary elegance that distinguishes his architecture.

Material:
Brass

Finish:
bright chrome, satin chrome, supergold bright, superbronze satin