In the collection of Museu de les Arts Decoratives, Barcelona

This television trolley was designed for my parents' house. At that time, there were not yet special supports for the television set, that was usually placed on a shelf, console or other type of table that served also as magazine holder and had golden structure and smoked methacrylate. I would say that we were the firsts to simply give four legs to the device.

We had to adapt the trolley to the widths of the different screens and we also realised that, by turning the structure around, we could place them at two different heights; a conventional one and another very close to the ground (those were hippy years). We just had to design the handles with a rod that fit into the wheel housing; it was that simple. The sales success was immediate: the first one of BD. Aurelio Zanotta liked it so much that he was interested in obtaining the manufacturing license for the rest of the world. And it sold a lot. When video recorders appeared we had to make the design less minimalist and add a tray that hanged underneath.

In an article in Corriere della Sera from the late 1970s (last image), the prestigious Gillo Dorfles (Italian art critic, painter and philosopher) ends his review of the Milan Furniture Fair of the time (rather negative) by praising the rectilinear and slightly playful purity of a "carrelo portatelevisore" and describes it as one of the most refined objects in the entire Sallone.