Cambi Auction House presents the exclusive event dedicated to the production and work of Gavina, one of Italy's leading historical design furniture brands. Founded in the 1960s by Dino Gavina, one of the most important entrepreneurial figures in the Italian furniture and Design sector, the company Gavina SpA has been and still is in fact a reference and inspiration point for many other companies in the sector, both Italian and international.

Dino Gavina's business card bore the peculiar inscription "Dino Gavina, subversive." That's it. Not a phone number, not an address. The formal choice is itself nonconformist, especially at a time in history, the 1960s, when subversives were often affiliated with movements and organizations that had nothing to do with aesthetic research and experimentation.

Dino Gavina was a romantic idealist in declining diverse entrepreneurial experiences with the multifaceted commitment of entrepreneur, client and visionary. It is precisely this multifacetedness that connects with what has been the real driving force behind his success: direct contact with architects, designers, sculptors, painters, and critics over a very broad span of time beginning in the early 1950s that brought him back to work with personalities so varied that he became familiar with untangling projects and ideas that were difficult to realize and even more difficult to mass produce.

Dino Gavina's ability to go to the essentials, mastering the artistic tradition, allowed him to see the success of an idea even before the artist himself was aware of it: even when the artist was not focused and , almost spontaneously, produced any artifact, Dino Gavina knew how to grasp its poetics and translate it into a technical project. Example above all the game Silla oval-shaped cookie box where Man Ray drew an eye, which would later evolve into the seat Le Timoni. He was thus, in addition to a volcanic creator of projects, a facilitator of skills and a catalyst of ideas.

Today, his designs, decades after their origin, outline the profile of a man who not only knew how to be modern and disruptive to his contemporaries but who, even now, turns out to be a visionary at times unattainable.