Tag: Milan Triennale Design Museum

Red Up 5 and Up 6 by Gaetano Pesce

The last photo together with the Superlegerra Chair by Gio Ponti.

 

Up 5 and Up 6 by Gaetano Pesce

I took this photo September 24, 2011 in the Milan Triennale Design Museum

Up 5 and Up 6 embodies aqn extraordinary innovative technological value and is strongly charged with symbolic and expressive significance. This is a chair made entirely of polyurethane and covered with a mesh of nylon and jersey. It has no inner structure. Madeof a single material, it is soft, inviting, friendly.Its design marking a break with traditional armchairs. It is a block of foam, with sufficient density to be self-supporting. It has an anthropomorphic form, looking rather like a prehistorian female fertility statue. It also invokes the voloptuousness of the female body with senuous lines and curves. But Gaetanon Pesce added a ball tied to the armchair which serves as a footrest. It vaguely recals the ball and chain in popular pictures of convicts.
The packaging was also entirely new, being designed to facilitate portability. When it was put into production by the firm then called B&B Italia, it was presented at the Salone del Mobile in Milan in a kind of happening. The chair, once completed, was transported in a vacuum chamber to reduce the volume to about 10% of its natural size and then wrapped into a sealed plastic airtight wrapping. At the presentation the plastic wrappings were opened and little by little began to come alive, expanding and taking shape and body, thanks to the ambient air which penetrated into the capillaries of the polyurethane foam. Up 5 and Up 6 were produced during a few years onward from 1973. It then went out of production. It was reissued bby B&B Italia in 2000.

Milan Triennale Design Museum – 19

~~~~~
Chairs!
gje

Sofa Serpentone by Cini Boeri

Sofa Serpentone by Cini Boeri

I took this photo September 24, 2011 in the Milan Triennale Design Museum

Cini Boeri

Milano 1924 – 9 September 2020

She got her degree at Politecnico in Milan in 1951 and started her independent professional activity in 1963 (after a period of collaboration with Marco Zanuso), working in architecture and design fields. She designed houses, apartments and shops, both in Italy and abroad, paying particular attention to the study of the functionality of the space in smaller houses and to the psychological relationships between man and environment. In the area of industrial design, she concerned herself with furnishing elements and components for the building trade.
Different examples of her achievements can be found in museums and international exhibitions and she awarded many prizes, among which, in 1979, a Compasso d’Oro. She lectured at the Architecture faculty of Politecnico in Milan and conferences in the universities of various cities in the world. She published, among others, “The human sizes of house” (Milan, 1980).

via Arflex

Milan Triennale Design Museum – 18

~~~~~
Chairs!
gje

Spaghetti Chair by Giandomenico Belotti

Spaghetti Chair by Giandomenico Belotti for Alias

I took this photo September 24, 2011 in the Milan Triennale Design Museum

Milan Triennale Design Museum – 17

~~~~~
Chairs!
gje

Red Embryo Chair by Marc Newson

Red Embryo Chair by Marc Newson

I took this photo September 24, 2011 in the Milan Triennale Design Museum

Milan Triennale Design Museum – 16

~~~~~
Chairs!
gje

Emmenthaler Sofa by Verner Panton

Emmenthaler Sofa by Verner Panton

I took this photo September 24, 2011 in the Milan Triennale Design Museum

“Look at how children sit on the edge of a chair, with their toes just brushing the floor, or lounge all over the chair, or kneel on top of it or squat on their heels.
Adults correct them: “Sit up, sit properly, sit straight!”.
I wonder why it’s like that.
The king sits on the throne, the guests sit at table, music-lovers sit listening to a concert, the old lady settles into her easy chair, the poor sinner lies on a bench.
So is sitting perhaps a theatrical game?
And does it suffice to study a chair in order to understand the use it is intended for?
I am sorely tempted to disturb this game of chairs and sitting.
This could lead us to make chairs on which we sit any way we like, no matter how or why: With our arms on the legs, one arm around the back, relaxed and comfortable or straight upright. It could lead to making chairs which conceal their function until we sit on them. Will we sit down to eat? To play cards? Will we sit down even to quarrel?
Apart from being useful, a chair should always be valid in itself and, when placed side by side, a number of them should create a “landscape chair” that refuses to be merely functional.
Another thought. Today, steel tubes, foam rubber, springs, padding and linings have reached a state of technological progress that enables us to create forms that only a few years ago were unthinkable. Designers should use these resources to create objects previously imaginable only in the abstract.
Personally, I love designing chairs and objects that express the full potential of the time where we live in”
Verner Panton
Copenhagen, May 1980

Milan Triennale Design Museum – 15

~~~~~
Chairs!
gje