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Chapter Two

The catalogue, piece by piece

Sofas, chairs, armchairs, tables and the small objects that surround them. Open any entry for the materials, the construction and the thinking behind the shape.

Entries
Eighteen studies
Categories
Sofas to accessories
Span
1912 to 2024
Note
Periods given, never guessed

Showing 18 of 18 pieces.

Sofas

5 pieces
  • Fig. 01

    Chester

    1912, in the first catalogue

    Renzo Frau

    The Edwardian English club sofa revisited, with rolled pleated arms level with the back and a deeply capitonné front.

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  • Fig. 02

    Chester One

    After the 1912 model

    After Renzo Frau

    The Chester rebuilt for how people actually sit now, with seats fifteen centimetres deeper and configurations up to five seats.

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  • Fig. 03

    Kennedee

    2006

    Jean-Marie Massaud

    A low modular seating system with fine quilting to the backrest and cushions, configurable linear, corner or curved.

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  • Fig. 04

    GranTorino

    2013

    Jean-Marie Massaud

    A lean sofa drawn from saddlery, combining a thick Saddle Extra leather with fabric across the same piece.

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  • Fig. 05

    Ouverture

    1982

    Pierluigi Cerri

    A modular sofa that puts its own structure on show: a T-shaped steel bar and a metal frame perforated with circles.

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Chairs

3 pieces
  • Fig. 01

    DU 30

    Designed 1953

    Gastone Rinaldi

    Seat and back cut from a single shaped steel sheet on four bent-tube supports, winner of the first Compasso d'Oro.

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  • Fig. 02

    Intervista

    1989

    Lella and Massimo Vignelli

    Designed for a television studio, for a newsreader shot at full length rather than head and shoulders.

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  • Fig. 03

    Cockpit

    2017

    Ferrari Design Centre

    The first office chair designed by Ferrari, derived from a racing seat and built for Ferrari's seventieth anniversary.

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Armchairs

6 pieces
  • Fig. 01

    Vanity Fair

    1930, as model 904

    From drawings by Renzo Frau

    The armchair that defined the house: enveloping arms, an arched back, a fully buttoned front and a row of leather-covered pins.

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  • Fig. 02

    1919

    1919

    Renzo Frau

    A reinterpretation of the bergère, unusual for carrying its capitonné on the backrest, and made to order as a numbered piece.

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  • Fig. 03

    Dezza

    1965

    Gio Ponti

    Ponti's squared modernist armchair, the first product of the Tolentino era and continuously in production since.

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  • Fig. 04

    Sanluca

    Designed 1960

    Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni

    An armchair built from three formally independent parts, seat, backrest and headrest, meeting along visible seams.

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  • Fig. 05

    Antropovarius

    1982

    Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

    An ergonomic reclining lounge chair whose adjustable rib elements are modelled on the human vertebral column.

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  • Fig. 06

    Archibald

    2009

    Jean-Marie Massaud

    A softly rounded armchair on cast-aluminium feet, with vertical folds and edge stitching worked across the shell.

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Tables

2 pieces
  • Fig. 01

    Mesa

    Contemporary

    Lella and Massimo Vignelli

    A table reduced to a plane and its supports, made in rectangular and elliptical versions.

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  • Fig. 02

    Titano

    Late 1990s

    Pierluigi Cerri

    A table whose structure is made in titanium, and the piece that brought the house its first Compasso d'Oro.

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Accessories

2 pieces
  • Fig. 01

    Ren

    Contemporary

    Neri&Hu

    A family of objects for the room around the furniture: bookcase, dressing table, valet stand, standing mirror, side table and magazine rack.

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  • Fig. 02

    Stock 'n Roll

    2024

    Sebastian Herkner

    A leather nightstand from the Imagine collection, presented at Salone del Mobile in 2024.

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