Riva 1920 for Eataly NY

After Milan, São Paulo, Seoul, Monaco, Doha, Riyadh, Moscow and Copenaghen the collaboration with Etaly continues on the occasion of the opening of Eataly Downtown New York in the Westfield World Trade Center built on the rubble of Ground Zero. Riva 1920 designs and manufactures the table Earth that will be placed at the entrance of the space as a welcome sign for all the visitors. Featured by a top made of resin and millenary Kauri wood from New Zealand, it wants to be a stylized representation of the earth, the wooden parts metaphorically representing the continents and the resin sections the oceans. The texture of wood and the transparency of the resin are capable of creating a fascinating interplay of light and shadow. The special iron base, designed by Renzo Piano, that echoes the original design of table “Antico” for the initiative of "Ground Zero ... Ground Heroes" in 2001, symbolizes the tangle of the reinforcement of buildings protruding from the rubble following the collapse of the Twin Towers.