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( about this product )
The Kroma round table by Antonia Astori for Driade, designed around 1980, embodies the radical yet disciplined spirit of Italian postmodern design, where geometry becomes both structure and visual language; conceived as part of the Kroma series, the table translates architectural thinking into furniture through its crisp circular top, often finished in laminate with graphic edging, and its sculptural base, which introduces a bold chromatic contrast and almost totemic presence, balancing lightness and solidity in a way that feels both playful and rigorously composed, reflecting Astori’s vision of furniture as “room architecture” and positioning the piece as a refined yet expressive statement within the experimental design landscape of the 1980s.
( about ) the designer
Antonia Astori
Antonia Astori is an Italian architect and designer whose work navigates the boundary between architecture and furniture with a refined, intellectual clarity; active from the late 1960s onward, she became closely associated with the Italian radical design movement through her collaborations with brands like Driade, where she explored the idea of furniture as spatial structure rather than mere object, creating pieces defined by rigorous geometry, chromatic contrast, and an almost architectural sense of composition, her designs often balancing functional precision with a quietly expressive, postmodern sensibility that reflects both discipline and experimentation within the evolving landscape of contemporary design.
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