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Most modern office desks make you choose a side: engineering or warmth, the machined edge or the timber grain. Iulio by Las Mobili, designed by Studio Si, declines the choice — the manufacturer describes the collection as aluminium and wood interacting to reach the right stylistic balance, and the leg is where the treaty is signed: an extruded aluminium profile in Inox Grey, stiffened by a 3 mm steel core, carrying a vertical wood-effect insert in 3d-foil and, inside, a cable riser you can actually open — the cover comes off, the cables go in, the cover goes back.
The top is 25 mm MDF with shaped, rounded edges and a detail worth a second look: a 6 mm decorative T-moulding in Inox Grey, recessed into a dedicated milled groove rather than glued to the edge — it draws the desk's outline, matches the legs and guards the perimeter where briefcases and chair arms do their worst. Beneath it, a 50 x 25 mm epoxy-coated steel frame; in front, an optional modesty panel for offices where the desk faces the door.
One code for the whole room
The programme runs past the desk. Rectangular meeting tables carry a flip-top access in the same finish as the surface, with a 1 mm sheet-metal cable tray beneath; the circular table stands on a tapered column — Ø 590 mm base, tube narrowing from Ø 128 to Ø 89 mm — that frees the perimeter for chairs. Pedestals arrive assembled, on swivel castors, with self-closing drawers and central locking; the service unit slides its doors on soft-close runners; monolithic wall units open at a push, no handles, and take a reversible bookshelf element with an 8 mm tempered-glass shelf; low, medium and high cabinets lock with an extractable cylinder and a double folding key. Three woods — Grey Elm, Bali Walnut, Wengè — and two plain colours, Black and White, keep tops, legs and storage on one palette. Product certificates can be downloaded on this page.
Collection: Iulio
Manufacturer: Las Mobili
Design: Studio Si
Engineering: C.S.R. Las Mobili
Type: executive desk system — desks, meeting tables, pedestals, service units, storage cabinets, monolithic units
Tops: 25 mm (0.98 in) MDF, shaped rounded edges, 3d-foil facing, melamine backing
Moulding: 6 mm (0.24 in) decorative T-profile, Inox Grey, recessed into a milled groove
Frame: 50 x 25 mm (2 x 0.98 in) metal tube, 1.5 mm (0.06 in) thick, Inox Grey epoxy powder coating
Legs: extruded aluminium, Inox Grey, inspectable vertical cable compartment with removable cover, 3 mm (0.12 in) structural steel core, vertical 3d-foil MDF profiles
Modesty panel: optional, 18 mm (0.71 in) MDF
Meeting tables: rectangular with colour-matched flip-top access and 1 mm (0.04 in) sheet-metal cable tray; circular with column base — Ø 590 mm (23.2 in) base, tapered tube Ø 128 → Ø 89 mm (5 → 3.5 in), 4 mm (0.16 in) sheet-metal cross, Inox Grey or Black
Pedestals: nylon swivel castors, drawers with opening stop and self-closing action, central lock, supplied assembled
Service unit: soft-closing sliding doors, 5 adjustable feet
Monolithic units: push-open doors, 110° hinges with 3D adjustment; reversible bookshelf element W 45/90 x D 46.3 x H 45 cm (17.7 in), optional 8 mm (0.31 in) tempered-glass shelf
Storage cabinets: shelves on a 32 mm (1.3 in) pitch, soft-closing hinges, lock with extractable cylinder and double folding key, completed with separate finishing tops and end sides
3d-foil finishes: Grey Elm, Bali Walnut, Wengè, Black, White — internal structures in Black or White melamine
Handles: die-cast metal, Inox Grey
Warranty declared by the manufacturer:
5 years on the furniture
3 years on worktops faced with 3d-foil
2 years on sockets, cables, control panels and motor drives
Spare parts available for 5 years
Manufacturer certifications: UNI EN ISO 9001:2015 (SQ174159-ICILA), UNI EN ISO 14001:2015 (ICILA-SGA-17258), UNI ISO 45001:2018 (IMQ-SHS-170062), SA8000:2014 (certificate no. 144), FSC® chain of custody ICILA-COC-000170 with FSC® certified products on request, COSMOB Qualitas Praemium Formaldehyde no. 45/2025 for low-formaldehyde panels; declared contribution of 6 LEED points (MR C4 recycled content, MR C2 construction waste management, MR C5 regional materials, EQ C4.5 low-emitting materials)
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Iulio was drawn against exactly that risk. Las Mobili describes the collection as aluminium and wood interacting «to reach the right stylistic balance»: the extruded leg carries a vertical wood-effect 3d-foil insert precisely where the eye lands, and the palette — Grey Elm, Bali Walnut or Wengè against Black or White — lets the room decide its temperature. In a Georgian terrace office the walnut register sits comfortably; in a glass building the plain colours sharpen. The metal is the structure, not the statement.
The vertical compartment inside the leg closes with a removable cover. At installation, power and data rise out of sight; the difference shows at year three, when the monitor changes or a second screen arrives — the cover comes off, the new cable drops in, the cover goes back, no dismantling and no cable spine clipped to a leg as an afterthought. The compartment is engineered into the leg, which carries a 3 mm structural steel core, shaped and drilled to anchor the frames.
The circular table belongs in the private office: its tapered column — Ø 590 mm base narrowing from Ø 128 to Ø 89 mm — leaves the perimeter clear for chairs and puts three or four people at equal distance, which is the geometry of a candid conversation. The rectangular table is for the meeting room proper: its top carries a colour-matched flip-top access with a sheet-metal cable tray beneath, because where laptops connect and screens are shared, cables exist and deserve a route. Same T-moulding, same finishes — the two rooms stay visibly one family.
Three tiers. The pedestal locks centrally: one turn secures every drawer beside the chair. Low, medium and high cabinets take a lock with an extractable cylinder — recodable without replacing the unit — and a double folding key. The monolithic wall units, by contrast, open at a push and carry no handle or lock: they are drawn for the wall that should disappear, not for the confidential archive. The practical rule for a practice handling privileged material: confidential in pedestal and locked cabinets, everyday in the monoliths.
Both, which is why it is worth noticing. Visually it is the Inox Grey line that draws the desk's profile and ties the top to the legs — the detail that separates Iulio from an anonymous slab. Constructively it sits in a dedicated milled groove rather than on the surface of the edge, so it protects the perimeter where a desk genuinely works — bags, chair arms, the daily traffic of a professional room — and stays seated over the years. Edges are where desks age first; this one is defended by design.
For designers, practice managers and fit-out teams: five choices in order — register, finishes, cabling, the meeting question, storage — from catalogue to coherent room.
Iulio speaks two temperatures: Grey Elm, Bali Walnut or Wengè keep a director's office warm and material; Black or White turn it graphic and precise. Decide the register first — building, light, role — and let the configuration follow. Specify the optional modesty panel wherever the desk faces the door: it closes the front without changing the architecture.
Three woods and two plain colours run across tops, leg profiles and storage — one code, no improvisation. Anchor it to what will not change: floor, joinery, panelling. The Inox Grey T-moulding and die-cast handles already match the legs, so the metalwork is coordinated from the factory rather than assembled by eye.
Find where power and data actually surface — floor box or wall — and orient the desk so one leg lands on that point: the inspectable riser with its removable cover does the rest, at installation and at every equipment change after. Between two possible orientations, choose the one that shortens the visible run of cable.
For close conversations in the private office, specify the circular column table: Ø 590 mm base, clear perimeter, no head of table. For the meeting room proper, the rectangular framed table with flip-top access and cable tray earns its place — that is where laptops connect and decisions get minuted. Match the desk's finish where the two rooms are visible from one another.
Pedestal on castors beside the chair (it arrives assembled, central locking), sliding-door service unit where circulation is tight, push-open monoliths for the clean wall, locked cabinets for anything privileged. One specification trap: cabinet compositions must always be completed with finishing tops and end side panels, supplied separately — the line most often missing from the order and discovered at installation.
