Carlo Ratti Chairs

The set of 4 Lulli chairs, conceived by Carlo Ratti in the golden age of Italian design in 1950, embodies timeless elegance and structural innovation. Masterfully crafted by Curved W...

Italian iconic mid century design single "Medea" chair. This fantastic chair is made of bent oak wood and black metal legs. Designed by Vittorio Nobili for the Tagliabue Brothers in 1955. First advertised in Domus issue 329 in April 1955, it has become an iconic and highly collectible piece of mid-century design. Perfect Conditions restored. This piece is attributed to the above-mentioned designer...

Italian-designed '' Boomerang '' Desk Chair by Carlo Ratti. This modern and playful chair exudes joy with its colorful and cheerful Skai upholstery in original green, perfectly compl...

Set of four dining chairs, stained beech, fabric, Italy, 1960s These dining chairs of Italian origin have a strong resemblance to Augusto Savini’s 'Pamplona' chair (1965) and Afra & Tobia Scarpa...

"Boomerang" model chair, design Carlo de Carli, 1950s production made of wood on a black lacquered metal frame, seat and back upholstered in cream-colored skay, original of the ti...

Midcentury Milo Baughman style walnut lounge chair. This handsome midcentury club chair or lounge chair has been professionally upholste...

This set of a table and six Italian dining chairs was designed by Carlo Ratti in the 1950s. Both, the chairs and the matching table were manufactured by the company Industria Legni C...

Two beautiful original Carlo Ratti bentwood chairs, manufactured by his company Industria Legni Curvati, based in Lissone, Milan. New upholstered with a two-tone fabric.

Dal Vera- Made in Italy circa 1950s, in walnut and leather restored Measure in cm: H 70/40, W 60, D 48 Dal Vera production made in Italy 1950s  

Set of four dining chairs with a frame in black lacquered metal and seat in curved plywood, attributed to Carlo Ratti and produced by Società Compensati Curvati in the 1950s. In Italy, at the beginning of the XX century, industries of curved solid wood arose under license of Michael Thonet, and through the International Exhibitions the processing of curved wood became more and more widespread. The Expo of the first decade was also attended by the wood manufacturers of Monza, while in 1905 Otto Helzer, in Switzerland, patented wooden structures in curved laminated, whose strength was equivalent to those in steel. The Ratti brothers of Monza took their cue from the solid wood laminate to create furniture that, instead of wooden elements, used sheets of wood. The brothers Ratti, Carlo and Mario, also began to follow the young artistic avant-gardes (cubism, futurism and abstractionism). The mastery of wooden sculpture influenced Carlo in the design and realization of furniture of fine neo-plastic artistic workmanship and decò, receiving honors from the Prince of Piedmont Umberto di Savoia. In 1919, in Milan, the first Lombard Exhibition of Decorative Arts was set up (later to become the Triennale) and the Ratti brothers exhibited their furniture in solid wood but also in curved panel with a new system of curvature, the one in Telo. The canvas system was developed by the Ratti brothers with the help of a friend, Cesare Cantù. They developed an elastomer bag in which the mould was inserted with the panel to be bent and, closing it with clamps, the air inside was removed, thus making the panel adhere to the mould. Carlo and Mario found in the Telo system a means by which they could make objects and furniture in the three spatial directions with large surface curvatures, without limits of thickness and minimum radii of curvature. In 1921 in Stuttgart the first Salone del Mobile was inaugurated and the Fratelli Ratti of Monza made itself known internationally by presenting solid wood furniture and also furniture in load-bearing plywood, flanked by furniture with framed and interchangeable covers. The Expo became meeting places to verify and present the novelties in the furniture and industrialization sector and, with the development of Industrial Design, the first architects joined in the design of the furniture industries. The Ratti Brothers, in the various international and national exhibitions, also presented incredible objects in their realization with the system in Telo. After 1930 Carlo and Mario produced many containers for radio and folding chairs for cinema but in 1939 they divided and in Monza Mario remained who, with his sons Antonio and Angela, formed the Società Compensati Curvi...

An excellent set of four (4) armless Mid-Century Modern dining chairs designed by Carlo di Carli in walnut wood with an upholstered seat and back. Made by M. Singer & Sons in the USA...

Rare and large grouping of early Carlo Ratti molded plywood chairs ; seat height, tapered iron leg and interesting strap hinge detail on the back. All in original condition. Avantgar...