Cassina produces the FF.Spine bookcase, originally designed by Formafantasma for the Galleria Giustini / Stagetti in Rome for the “1858” collection. It included furniture made solely from one of the 14 million evergreen trees destroyed by the Vaia storm in October 2018 devastating northern Italy’s Val di Fiemme forests; hence, the name “1858”, year of the tree’s birth.
The designers’ commitment to using material recovered from the storm is now reinterpreted, creating a bookcase from blocks of solid wood with different veining and types of cut.
Designed to make the best possible use of each individual part of the trunk, the modularity of the piece helps conserve precious natural resources.
The bookcase comes in three versions: free-standing two-sided, ideal for positioning in the centre of a room; with base that rests on the floor and wall-mount, or suspended with wall-mount. The latter version opens the door to a multitude of possible compositions because it has no restrictions as to the number of uprights that can be used, even making it possible to alternate the arrangement of shelves of different lengths, creating an interplay of positive and negative spaces.
FF.Spine is available in a natural version or stained, glossy or matte. The various colours are hand-applied with a cloth on ash, allowing the wood veining to emerge, and highlighting this aspect.
In addition to the wooden version, to embellish the naturally linear design of FF.Spine, smoked tempered glass shelves are available for pairing with the bookcase’s various types of wood, except for the natural ash.
