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i4Mariani writes of «cubic supporting asymmetric pedestals» for its desks, and on Crossing that is the whole stance. At one end, a leg 20 cm wide and 74 cm high, wrapped in leather. At the other, a fixed pedestal of three drawers, 57 × 90 × 58 cm, with a 23 cm leather support lifting the top above it. The MD gets drawers within reach on the working side, the visitor side stays open, and the table still reads as one piece. Of all the luxury executive tables we show, this is the one where the imbalance is the design.
Luca Scacchetti designed it in 2013 for i4Mariani, a company based at Mariano Comense, near Como. The top is a 30 mm panel kept flat by bars underneath and covered entirely in saddle leather, soft leather or veneer; the legs are three bonded panels, 8 cm thick, with chamfered inner edges. Veneers come as rosewood-type or flamed Canaletto walnut as standard. For a complete director's cabin layout the same pieces go on to fill the room.
The range: tops of 160, 180 or 200 × 90 cm, fixed and mobile pedestals, a 90 cm return and a 180 cm return cabinet, a 220 cm low cabinet with an extra top, three meeting tables of 320 × 120, 140 × 140 and 100 × 100 cm, and a pair of low tables at 43 cm. La Mercanti plans the cabin layout so that the pedestal side matches how the MD actually works.
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A storage unit of 180 × 50.3 × 58 cm in veneer, with two doors or one door and three drawers, made in a right or a left version. It can replace the leg altogether: the top then rests on a leather support set on the cabinet. In a director's cabin it puts files on the working side without adding a separate sideboard.
Each leg is three bonded panels, 8 cm thick overall, and the two vertical edges are chamfered on the inner side. An aluminium plate at the top fixes the leg firmly to the table top, and the whole piece is wrapped in leather, saddle or soft. It is a detail that photographs rarely show, so it is worth checking on the technical drawing before approval.
Luca Scacchetti, who drew it in 2013. A Milanese architect, he graduated from the Politecnico in 1975 and became a professor of industrial design; for i4Mariani he has also designed armchairs. Here he worked with very few volumes, a top and its supports, and let the way they meet carry the whole design.
The maker describes the geometry as apparently elementary, yet tied to familiar structures: a beam crossing the space, or a bridge over a stream or a gorge resting on raised supports at each side. In practice it is the top that does this, running as one continuous piece and turning down at the ends.
Drawers in the storage units are made of beech plywood, tinted to match the veneer chosen for the fronts. Open a drawer of a rosewood-type pedestal and the inside follows the same tone as the outside. It is a small detail, but in a cabin where visitors see the drawers opened, it keeps the finish consistent.
The modesty panel is the first thing a visitor sees. Five steps to pick its length, finish and height on a Crossing executive table, starting from where people walk in.
Our advice: look at the table from the cabin door before choosing anything. From there the front panel is what shows. i4Mariani makes it 20 mm thick and 54 cm high, in saddle leather, soft leather or veneer, and its length follows the top and the supports underneath.
Tops come in three sizes, 160, 180 and 200 cm, each 90 cm deep. The panel cannot be ordered until this is settled, since every top has two possible panel lengths. Measure the cabin and the walkway around the chair before choosing.
The second variable is the pair of supports: two legs, or one leg and a drawer pedestal. With two legs the panel runs longer; with a pedestal on one side it is shorter. Decide the supports with the person who will sit there, not after.
For a 160 cm top the panel is 132 cm with a pedestal or 184 cm with two legs. For 180 cm it is 152 or 204 cm; for 200 cm, 172 or 224 cm. Write the configuration and the length together on the order, so the panel arrives right first time.
The panel can be dressed in leather, saddle or soft, or in veneer. In leather it repeats the legs and gives the visitor one material from end to end; in veneer it ties the front to the storage behind the table. Decide with the rest of the finishes.
