Nòs

The small desk designed by Gianfranco Frattini for Bernini dates back to 1957. Originally called Model 530, the furniture piece was renamed “Nòs” - which means walnut in the Milanese dialect - on the occasion of its re-edition by Ceccotti Collezioni sixty-five years after its first production. With an essential style and rigorous lines, it was initially distributed mainly in walnut wood (natural or stained), with the base having a characteristic hourglass shape and embellished with a frame that emphasizes its profile. Available in three different versions, the Nòs small desk underlines Frattini's holistic vision in thinking of spaces and furnishings as a historical continuum: the project becomes all-encompassing and nothing can be random. The standard version of the small desk has a smooth worktop, under which there are two lockable drawers, one on each side, each equipped with a key with a wooden handle. There are also three compartments, one on the front and two on the back. The roll top version, on the other hand, reinterprets and combines the small desk and the secretary, an elegant and decorative model created in the eighteenth century to satisfy female tastes. The cabinet, compared to the previous one, adds a shelf with two roll top closures on the top, a recurring element in Frattini's design. Finally, in the third version the drawer base is “replicated” to also be housed on the top, where it can function as a practical object or document holder.