Armani Casa’s playful video games desk is impressed by Artwork Deco

Like a poker participant concealing its hand power or a chessmaster’s complicated quiet strikes and tactical maneuvers, this refined video games desk by Armani Casa has loads of methods hidden up its sleeves.

An artwork deco-inspired ebony wooden desk coated in luxurious taupe leather-based, it incorporates a central prime that rotates to disclose a checkered taking part in floor in ebony and mable wooden. Two aspect drawers are used to retailer the chess and checkers items, whereas every nook hides a pull-out cup holder.

‘Borgonuovo’ video games desk by Armani Casa

Named after the Milanese road the place Giorgio Armani lived, it epitomises Armani Casa’s deal with beautiful supplies and cautious detailing. These embrace satin-finished gentle brass edging and parts such because the cup holder tabs, that are adorned with the home’s round monogram, composed of a stylized G and A, harking back to a yin and yang image.

The artwork deco palette, leather-based prime and triangular legs additionally nod to one of many Giorgio Armani’s biggest supply of inspiration, the work of French designer Jean-Michel Frank: ‘I deeply admire Frank for his method with shapes and supplies, the sense of magnificence his work emanates,’ he mentioned in an interview with Paul Smith for Wallpaper* in 2022. ‘It’s one thing I at all times take a look at for Armani Casa.’ Each shared a style for plain-lined however luxurious furnishings fabricated from the most effective supplies.

You would pair ‘Borgonuovo’ with Armani Casa’s ‘Sir’ backgammon set, clad in blue leather-based printed with the home’s monogram and containing chips in a marble-effect blue and sage inexperienced bioresin; or its ‘Story’ tarot playing cards, that includes Armani garments in addition to furnishings, materials, wallpapers and equipment.