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On Crossing the L is decided at the floor plan, not bought as a separate desk. The lighter way is a 35 1/2″ × 19 5/8″ return, made like the main top, fixed to the desk with a plate and resting on a leg at its far end. The heavier way is a 70 7/8″ return cabinet, 19 3/4″ deep and 22 7/8″ high, with two doors or one door and three drawers, and the top sits on it through a short leather support. Either one comes left- or right-handed, which is why this belongs among our Italian contemporary office desks for a corner office laid out around the person using it.
The design is by Luca Scacchetti, from 2013, and the maker is i4Mariani, in Mariano Comense outside Como. Their own description puts the top first, «a separate and continuous element» that folds over and extends down the sides. Legs stand 29 1/8″ tall, wrapped entirely in saddle or soft leather with an aluminum plate at the head, and the veneer comes standard in flamed Canaletto walnut or a rosewood-type finish. For the rest of an executive office suite the family keeps going.
Desk tops come 63″, 70 7/8″ or 78 3/4″ wide by 35 1/2″ deep. Around them: fixed and rolling pedestals, an 86 5/8″ credenza with an additional top, occasional tables and three conference tables of 126″ × 47 1/4″, 55 1/8″ square and 39 3/8″ square. La Mercanti draws the L on the client's floor plan, with the return on the side they choose.
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i4Mariani builds the collection around cubic pedestals that support the desk asymmetrically. A fixed three-drawer pedestal, 22 1/2″ × 35 1/2″ × 22 7/8″, can replace one leg, with a short leather support lifting the top above it. Storage ends up on the side of the working hand while the other end stays open for the knees, and that choice is worth making before anything else.
It measures 126″ × 47 1/4″ and stands 29 1/8″ high. It is ordered either fully covered in saddle or soft leather, or in veneer with leather inserts and leather legs. Two square tables, 55 1/8″ and 39 3/8″, complete the set, so the boardroom and the executive office can share one material story.
There is no applied hardware. Each pull is a groove routed inside the door or drawer, cut into a solid wood insert that is set into the panel before the veneer goes on. The fronts stay flat and the grain carries on across them, which on a rosewood-type credenza is most of the effect.
A credenza, 86 5/8″ × 19 5/8″ × 29 1/8″, in veneer, with four doors, or two doors and three drawers. On it can sit an additional top, 89″ × 19 5/8″ × 9″, covered entirely in saddle or soft leather, or veneered with leather supports. A leather top there repeats the legs of the desk across the room.
Yes. The standard pair is rosewood-type and flamed Canaletto walnut, and any other finish can be requested. Raise it at the start, together with the leather, because the drawer boxes are tinted to match the wood and the whole program follows that one choice. La Mercanti takes the request to i4Mariani before the plan is final.
Saddle or soft leather, then a family, a name and a sample. Five steps to settle the leather on a Crossing desk before the order goes in, including what the hide size means for big tops.
i4Mariani groups its leathers in families. Saddle leather comes as Privilege, Harmonie and Vegetale; soft leather as Privilege, Harmonie, Luxe and Atelier. Choosing the family first narrows a long list to a handful of names, and both types are offered on the leg, the top and the tables.
Inside each family the names do the work. Vegetale is Dakota, Holiday or Nevada; Luxe runs from 70's to Women; Atelier includes Wild Island, Painters and Sauvage. Put both on the spec sheet, line and name, so nobody has to guess later.
A screen flattens leather. Ask for the physical sample and look at it next to the rosewood-type or Canaletto walnut veneer you picked, in the light of the office it is going to, at the hour that office is busiest.
According to i4Mariani, the size of the different cuts can vary noticeably with the leather category chosen. On a 78 3/4″ top or on the 126″ conference table, that is a question to clear on the sample, together with color.
On this model no stitching is planned, so the leather reads as one surface on top, legs and supports. Brief the client on that from the first presentation: it is part of the look, and nobody should expect a contrast seam.
