29/05/2026
The Diapason, designed by Marzio Cecchi for Studio Most, Florence, 1968. A single sheet of brushed stainless steel, bent, cantilevered, complete. No joints. No ornamentation. The form is the structure and the structure is the form. Fewer than 40 examples are known to exist.
Cecchi was a Florentine architect who died in New York on 1 January 1990, leaving behind a body of work that remains among the most quietly radical of the Italian mid-century. The Diapason is perhaps its clearest expression, a desk that functions equally well as sculpture, and makes no distinction between the two.
On view in our gallery in Paris.
