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Every good library knows the trick: seat people side by side, give them the window, and the room goes quiet. Alea Office designs that geometry into a desk. The Itube linear bench takes users on one side only, runs from 240 to 600 cm at a depth of 80 or 90, and is meant — the technical sheet says so — for rows facing a window or a wall, for universities and libraries as much as offices. The curved steel tube that gives the collection its name carries the top without visual noise, and pinnable screens or a felt curtain can mark territories when the row fills up.
Designed by Mirto Antonel, Itube then turns around and becomes a double-sided bench, meeting tables in five shapes, a manager's desk, a return unit. La Mercanti has furnished study rooms and workplaces with the same care for decades, and quotes the whole row as one project. Some of the best desks have always faced a window.
Collection: Itube — operative desks, bench workstations, linear bench, meeting tables, returns and an executive desk
Manufacturer: Alea Office, Sarone di Caneva, Italy
Design: Mirto Antonel
Structure: pairs of curved tubular-steel legs, Ø 35 mm (1.4 in); each leg is two tubes welded to a 4 mm (0.16 in) steel plate, tops fixed by screws into metal inserts
Tops: 30 mm (1.2 in) melamine-faced chipboard with 1 mm (0.04 in) ABS edge, or composite wood covered in Fenix; working height 73.4 cm (28.9 in)
Sizes: desks W 120–200 × D 80/90 cm (47.2–78.7 × 31.5/35.4 in); bench W 240–400 cm (94.5–157.5 in) (double runs up to 600) × D 120/150/160 cm (47.2/59.1/63 in); linear bench W 240–600 × D 80/90 cm (94.5–236.2 × 31.5/35.4 in); return W 80/100/120 × D 60 cm (31.5/39.4/47.2 × 23.6 in)
Dividers: 30 mm (1.2 in) pinnable screens, front-fixed or free-standing lateral; 18 mm (0.71 in) modesty panel; 4 mm (0.16 in) virgin-wool felt curtain on the arched structures
Above the top: arches 69.4 or 40 cm (27.3 or 15.7 in) high; HPL or composite-wood shelves, rectangular or organic and 360°-orientable at installation; metal trays and planters; uprights 20/30 cm (7.9/11.8 in)
Lighting: magnetic LED bars in brushed aluminium, 9.6 W/m, 3000 K, touch control
Electrification: PVC grommets, aluminium top access, metal or steel-wire cable trays; double-opening flip top on request
Finishes: 21 melamines, 6 Fenix colours, smooth and textured epoxy for the frame; felt curtain in 7 colours; screens in 9 fabrics
Company: ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 certified; FSC-certified timber on request; CARB2 panels
Documentation: test reports from accredited laboratories available on request
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Yes — both faces are pinnable. Each screen is a sandwich of 12 mm composite wood, 8 mm of pinnable sponge per side and fabric, 30 mm in total. Front screens screw to the top; lateral ones just rest on circular metal supports with non-slip rubber.
An arched structure in two heights, 69.4 or 40 cm. The taller one carries the felt curtain, side shelves in HPL or composite wood, storage trays and magnetic LED bars; the lower one keeps the bench visually light.
Three registers: 21 melamine finishes including serigraphed rippled whites and greys, six Fenix colours from white to Fes blue, and epoxy frame colours — smooth or textured — that reach copper and nugget gold. Felt and screen fabrics add textile tones.
Alea states that its products undergo performance testing at accredited laboratories, and copies of the test reports or conformity attestations are available on request — useful material for specifications and tenders.
A complement to the collection: one essential frame that becomes a coat stand, TV support, whiteboard holder or plant holder, with or without castors. In practice it follows the bench around as needs change.
Five shapes, one collection: choosing the right Itube table for the way your meetings actually run.
Stand-ups, interviews, project reviews: each format has its own table. Write down the longest meeting you host before choosing a shape.
Round and square tables level the hierarchy; rectangular and oval seat more people; the free-form top softens formal rooms. Itube offers all five.
Chairs need to slide back and people need to walk behind them: measure the room with movement in mind, not just the tabletop.
PVC grommets, aluminium top access or the double-opening flip top on request: decide where power surfaces before the table is built.
Table, screens and lighting travel better as a single specification: La Mercanti confirms the whole configuration in writing with the offer.
