Maggiolina Lounge Chair + Pouf
Maggiolina Lounge Chair + Pouf
Maggiolina Lounge Chair + Pouf

Maggiolina Lounge Chair + Pouf

$13,166 $20,310

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“A Cinderella that turns into a Princess,” we could write, to paraphrase Aurelio Zanotta about the process that led to the creation of the Maggiolina lounge chair. Starting from the hypothesis of an inexpensive, dismantable armchair, it was designed by Marco Zanuso towards the end of the 1940s for a competition held by the MoMA of New York. It had a structure of curved steel tubing from which a burlap ‘bag’ was hung, the ‘pockets’ of which contained two panels of plywood, inserted to support the two padded cushions used as seat and backrest.

 

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Marco Zanuso


On May 14, 1916, in Milan, Italy, Marco Zanuso entered the world. He is widely regarded as one of the forefathers of Italian industrial design and has had a varied and fruitful career as an Italian architect, designer, urban planner, and professor.

Following the war, he participated in discussions about the "modern movement" in the built environment. Together with Franco Albini, Marcello Nizzoli, the Castiglioni brothers (Livio, Pier Giacomo, and Achille), Alberto Rosselli, and the BBPR studio, he is an early proponent of new materials and technology for everyday things and the challenges of mass production.

Marco Zanuso is among the Milanese designers who are actively exploring the concept of "Good Design" in their daily work. Its input is crucial to the formation of the movement's guiding ideals.

He began his career in the field in 1945 after graduating from the Polytechnic of Milan with a degree in architecture. Between the years 1952 and 1956, he edited the architectural publication Casabella.

He spent the years 1946-1990 instructing students in the fields of architecture, design, and urban planning. He was a pioneer in the field of industrial design, having helped establish the ADI (the Association for Industrial Design) in 1956.

His career in industrial design has focused in large part on reducing the price and complexity of mass-produced goods. In 1948, he entered a piece of furniture for the Low-Cost Furniture competition hosted by New York's Museum of Modern Art.

In 1948, Pirelli founded a subsidiary called Arflex with the intention of developing foam rubber seating and early model occupparsi design.

The chair Antropus, designed by Marco Zanuso and built in 1949, and the chair woman, designed by Zanuso and awarded first prize at the Milan Triennale in 1951, both benefit from opportunities created by Zanuso.

He joined forces with fashion designer Richard Sapper in 1957. In 1961, one of the first collaborative initiatives was a stackable chair made from tiny, unreinforced plastic.

The item is entertaining, light, practical, and playful. It's one of the models that popularizes the usage of plastic in residential and commercial settings, and it comes in a rainbow of hues.

A year after graduating from college in 1959, Marco Zanuso found employment at the Italian electrical equipment maker Brionvega. In collaboration with Richard Sapper, we developed a groundbreaking format for a chain of radio and television stations.

In 1961, Kartell released the little children's chair model K4999 that had been designed in partnership with Sapper. The product is enjoyable, light, practical, and beneficial. It's one of the forms popularized by the rise of plastic in the furniture industry, and it comes in a rainbow of hues.

From 1948 to 1995, he signed dozens of significant projects that remain in the history of Italian and international industrial design, including some true icons of style, innovation, and modernity that can stand the test of time while retaining their formal qualities and cutting-edge technical solutions.

In 1972, he collaborated with Richard Sapper to create a set of liveable structures that were displayed at MoMA as part of an exhibition titled New Domestic Landscape.

Among the most well-known works by Marco Zanuso are: Algol, television - Brionvega, 1964 Lady, armchair (with foam rubber), Arflex, 1951 (with Richard Sapper)

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