Side Chairs - B&B Italia Iuta by Antonio Citterio

About the Item

Pair of white metal mesh and fabric B&B Italia Iuta side chairs by Antonio Citterio. Antonia Citterio’s work encompasses furniture, architecture and interiors and spans the last 30 years; most notably with B&B Italia, Vitra and Kartell. The Iuta collection is a B&B Italia icon that dates back to the late 1980s and has been produced and re-introduced over the years in a number of versions. The seating range uses a moulded metal mesh shell with profiled aluminium edging and polished chrome wire base or a four, or five star fixed base. The items on offer have a white finished metal mesh and the chrome wire base and the original vibrant green upholstered seat. The upholstery is in unmarked condition. The chrome edging strips of the chairs have some marks in places as shown and the mesh some small marks too, but nothing that detracts from their appeal. Perfect in a lounge, kitchen or reception room setting they are equally at home in a conservatory or on a sun deck.

Creator:

Antonio Citterio (Designer),B&B Italia (Retailer)

Dimensions:

Height: 30.32 in (77 cm)Width: 24.81 in (63 cm)Depth: 22.05 in (56 cm)Seat Height: 17.33 in (44 cm)

Sold As:

Set of 2

Style:

Modern (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Chrome,Fabric,Steel

Place of Origin:

Italy

Period:

2000-2009

Date of Manufacture:

2004

Condition:

Wear consistent with age and use.

Seller Location:

Highclere, GB

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU4278212828922

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B&B Italia

In 1966, Piero Ambrogio Busnelli cofounded C&B Italia, a modern Italian furniture manufacturer, with Cesare Cassina in northern Milan. From the outset, Busnelli and Cassina set about recruiting the most talented modernists in Italy to conceive of creative furnishings manufactured in modern ways. In the early 1970s, the company split, with Cassina founding his own eponymous firm and Busnelli taking leadership of what became B&B Italia.

For decades, Busnelli cultivated relationships with the world’s best design talent, resulting in furniture pieces that remain iconic today — be they Gaetano Pesce’s outwardly curvaceous Up seating (made for C&B, reintroduced by B&B) or tables from industrial designer Paolo Piva, each more sophisticated than the next in their geometrically complex steel-tube bases. B&B Italia earned four prestigious Compasso d’Oro design awards: in 1979 for Mario Bellini’s Le Bambole, in 1984 for the Sisamo wardrobe system by Studio Kairos, in 1987 for Antonio Citterio’s modular Sity sofa and, in 1989, the first award given to a manufacturing company itself.

Other notable names who designed for B&B Italia over the course of its 54-year history include Patricia Urquiola, Naoto Fukasawa, Zaha Hadid, Ettore Sottsass and Vincent Van Duysen, to name a very few. And while these names bring star power to the B&B brand, in many cases, it was B&B Italia who helped usher in their celebrity, fostering a wave of design talent on the world stage.

The company’s forward-thinking vision manifested in its own headquarters, too: In 1972, B&B Italia tapped architects Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers to design a steel-framed, postmodern-style home for the brand, whose crisscrossing metal exoskeleton is reminiscent of the pair’s Centre Pompidou in Paris, which was built at roughly the same time. Now, B&B Italia manages a contract division and outdoor section as well as its residential arm, and it also controls production for Maxalto, a brand spun out with furniture designs by Antonio Citterio.

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