Zanotta Albero

It was in 1983 that Achille Castiglioni designed a discreet presence – dynamic in its composition, flexible in its overall articulated design – intended to hold houseplants in their own pots. These pots are carried by small round plates (like caring hands, as it were) arranged evenly along the entire height of the structure. Horizontally, the individual elements can each be rotated by 120 degrees to better expose plants of different sizes to the daylight, on this small indoor 'vertical wood'. Albero, in other words, is the invention of a typology unique in recent history, one that only a catalogue as versatile as Zanotta's could accommodate, welcome and promote. There is probably only one predecessor: the small planter holders that Pierre Chareau, with the support of the blacksmith Dalbet, created for the legendary Maison de Verre 'machine for living'.