Peculiar pair of armchairs by Marco Zanuso (1916-2001), completely restored. Tastefully new brown velvet padding with entirely original shaft and brass feet.
Provenance: Italy
Era: 1950s
Dimensions: W70xD80xH100 cm – sitting 50 cm
Price is for the pair.
MARCO ZANUSO
The Italian architect and designer Marco Zanuso was born in Milan in 1916.
He taught architecture, design and urban planning and in 1945 opened his own studio in Milan. Since the 1940s he has collaborated with the Italian manufacturer Arflex and created a furniture collection based on the use of experimental and cutting-edge materials. He designed a series of products for Arflex that would become icons of modernism, such as the Lady armchair (1951), the Sleep-o-matic sofa (1951), the Martingala armchairs (1952) and Fourline (1964).
Between 1957 and 1977, with German industrial designer Richard Sapper, Zanuso explored a new aesthetic of the post-war years known as techno-functionalism.
Important architectural projects by Zanuso include the Olivetti factories in Buenos Aires and San Paolo, the IBM buildings in Milan and the Teatro Piccolo in Milan.
Winner of five Compasso d’Oro, his designs can be admired in many world-famous museums, such as the MoMA in New York, the Triennale Museum in Milan and the Arflex Museum.
Zanuso died in Milan in 2001.
