Carlo Ratti Molded Plywood Dining Chairs, 16 available

Custom made bench with beautiful bold elements; thick wood planks, shown here in ebonized black finish and blackened steel bases. Custom wood and metal finishes available.

Rare Jean Prouvé bench from the back row of the University of Paris Medical School Auditorium, circa 1957, in completely original condition, original...

Mid century weathered steel and iron atomic age sculpture. In the style of Bertoia. Can be used indoor or outdoor.

Three-light Meander wall light or ceiling mounted fixture with flexible arms which allow for endless poses and designs. Shown here in French orange ...

Seven-arm Meander ceiling mount chandelier with antique brass fittings, shown in custom red leather. Adjustable arms are 38" overall length; final specs depend on how arms are posed....

Pair of enameled dark drown wall lights with original glass and brushed aluminum fittings. Avantgarden Ltd. cultivates unexpected and exceptional lighting, furniture and design. To view items in person please visit our showroom in Pound Ridge...

Four dining chairs designed in 1950s by Carlo Ratti and produced by Industria Legni Curvati, Italy. Plywood seat with black lacquered metal frame. Signed.

Carlo Ratti for Industria Legni Curvati, set of four dining chairs, plywood with a teak fineer and metal, Italy, 1970s. Elegant set of Italian dining chairs with metal frame and ply...

This set of six Italian dining chairs was designed by Carlo Ratti in the 1950s. The seat shell is made of several bentwood elements with straight breaking edges in the area of the a...

A set of six chairs designed by Carlo Ratti for Industria Legni Curvati Lissoni, Italy, 1950's. Plywood seat and black metal base.

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...

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...