“I don't like technique, except as a means to express poetic feelings, but I can't stand things done badly; although they are simple the few furniture I designed require skill in those who execute them; therefore I entrusted them to Piero Frigerio from Cantù, who works with love equal to the wisdom of an ancient Italian craftsman; I am grateful to him also this time for giving me the opportunity to achieve with precision the things thought”.

This is what Ernesto N. Rogers wrote in testimony to the long-lasting relationship he had with the firm F.lli Frigerio “of his friend Pierino”.

From this decades-long collaboration, entire furnishings for important homes, like the Rogers’ one, and numerous objects families took shape, including a table from the early 1960s handed down in the memory of a designer from the B.B.P.R. Studio. This one was considered a work by the famous Milanese architectural partnership together with a variant still preserved in the home of the Cantù craftsman.

Black painted iron structure with orthogonal and adjustable brass crosspieces to support a thick teak wood top, split and white lacquered on the underlying surface.

Sizes: diameter cm.130xh.78.5

A close kinship linked Piero Frigerio to Aldo Galimberti, allowing Galimberti to be introduced into the circle of Milanese architects, with whom the more famous F.lli Frigerio used to collaborate. Among the numerous works carried out together, we remember the Ottica Randazzo furnishing. Their shop in Palermo was based on a design by Studio B.B.P.R. and, as reported in the pages of Domus in October 1961, it was "entrusted to the expertise of two skilled craftsmen from Cantù, Piero Frigerio and Aldo Galimberti, who were able to complete a large-scale and also uncommonly demanding job".

Modular panels in olive wood for walls and ceilings to which long rows of perspex chandeliers are anchored on a burnished brass structure, like the large display cases resting on a floor designed by Roberto Sambonet.

The Cugini Galimberti company, like many other less prominent workshops in Cantù, did not receive any particular recognition, despite the executive expertise it possessed. This apparently simple etagère, also designed by B.B.P.R. and also made in the early 1960s using ash plywood boards, is evidence of this.

A comfortable double grip to facilitate movement, visible lateral joints and rounded edges in a continuous game of references between load-bearing and carried elements.

Sizes: cm.124x28xh.102

Ernesto Nathan Rogers often rewarded his friend and collaborator Piero Frigerio with autographed dedications written in the magazines. There are also numerous books, honored in the name of “the ancient friendship”, including also the famous “Le Corbusier tra noi”, which is a commemoration held at the Faculty of Architecture in Milan and printed in only two thousand copies by Vanni Scheiwiller on October 20, 1966.

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