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Blow Zanotta

Zanotta Inflatable 'Blow' Chair 1967 with Original Box
By Zanotta, Gionathan de Pas & Donato D’Urbino & Paolo Lomazzi
Located in London, GB
Zanotta Inflatable 'Blow' Chair, 1967 Designed by Jonathan De Pas, Donato D’Urbino, and Paolo
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs

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PVC

1967, Paolo Lomazzi, Donato D'urbino, Jonathan de Pas, for Zanotta, Blow Chair
By Gionathan de Pas & Donato D’Urbino & Paolo Lomazzi, Zanotta
Located in Amsterdam IJMuiden, NL
unique.Blow chair. Traces of wear like not being totally clear plastic. Executed in PVC plastic. There was a
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs

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Plastic

1967, Paolo Lomazzi, Donato D'urbino, Jonathan de Pas, for Zanotta, Blow Chair
1967, Paolo Lomazzi, Donato D'urbino, Jonathan de Pas, for Zanotta, Blow Chair
$1,376 Sale Price
21% Off
H 27.96 in W 43.71 in D 38.19 in
Sciangai wooden coat hanger by De Pas, D’Urbino, Lomazzi for Zanotta 1980s
By Zanotta, Gionathan de Pas & Donato D’Urbino & Paolo Lomazzi
Located in Padova, IT
are the Blow inflatable armchair for Zanotta, the Joe two-seater chair for Poltronova in the shape of
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Vintage 1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands

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Octopus wooden and metal coat rack by De Pas, D’Urbino, Lomazzi for Zanotta  90s
By Gionathan de Pas & Donato D’Urbino & Paolo Lomazzi, Zanotta
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received the prestigious Compasso d'oro award for the Sciangai project created for Zanotta in 1973. In
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1990s Italian Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands

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Stilnovo De Pas, D’Urbino, Lomazzi Desk Lamp
By Stilnovo
Located in Antwerp, BE
. The inflatable Blow armchair for Zanotta and the seat Joe for Poltronova in the shape of a baseball
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Recent Sales

Two Original Blow Chairs by De Pas, d'Urbino & Lomazzi for Zanotta, Italy 1967
By Zanotta
Located in Jersey City, NJ
A pair of original and barely used "Blow" chairs in clear, inflated PVC designed in 1967 by
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs

Materials

PVC

Blow Armchair for Zanotta, 1967
By Gionathan de Pas & Donato D’Urbino & Paolo Lomazzi
Located in VILLEURBANNE, FR
Embracing the unmistakable spirit of the 70s, this armchair, model Blow, will transport you back
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Armchairs

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Plastic

Blow Armchair for Zanotta, 1967
Blow Armchair for Zanotta, 1967
H 29.53 in W 39.38 in D 35.44 in
Zanotta Blow Chair, designed 1967, unused in original box
By Gionathan de Pas & Donato D’Urbino & Paolo Lomazzi, Zanotta
Located in Wargrave, Berkshire
The Blow inflatable armchair was designed in 1967 by Jonathan De Pas, Donato D’Urbino and Paolo
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs

Materials

PVC

"Carrera" Sofa by De Pas, D'Urbino, and Lomazzi for BBB Bonacina, Italy, 1970
By BBB Bonacchina, Gionathan de Pas & Donato D’Urbino & Paolo Lomazzi
Located in New York, NY
well commercially successful. Blow was manufactured by Zanotta, bringing the Italian manufacturer
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Bouclé, Foam, Wood

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Blow Zanotta For Sale on 1stDibs

With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the blow zanotta you’re looking for. Frequently made of plastic, metal and wood, every blow zanotta was constructed with great care. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect blow zanotta — we have versions that date back to the 20th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 20th Century are available. A blow zanotta, designed in the mid-century modern style, is generally a popular piece of furniture. Gionathan de Pas & Donato D’Urbino & Paolo Lomazzi, Zanotta and Gae Aulenti each produced at least one beautiful blow zanotta that is worth considering.

How Much is a Blow Zanotta?

Prices for a blow zanotta start at $1,000 and top out at $7,750 with the average selling for $1,816.

A Close Look at Mid-century Modern Furniture

Organically shaped, clean-lined and elegantly simple are three terms that well describe vintage mid-century modern furniture. The style, which emerged primarily in the years following World War II, is characterized by pieces that were conceived and made in an energetic, optimistic spirit by creators who believed that good design was an essential part of good living.

ORIGINS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN

CHARACTERISTICS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN

MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW

ICONIC MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNS

VINTAGE MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS

The mid-century modern era saw leagues of postwar American architects and designers animated by new ideas and new technology. The lean, functionalist International-style architecture of Le Corbusier and Bauhaus eminences Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius had been promoted in the United States during the 1930s by Philip Johnson and others. New building techniques, such as “post-and-beam” construction, allowed the International-style schemes to be realized on a small scale in open-plan houses with long walls of glass.

Materials developed for wartime use became available for domestic goods and were incorporated into mid-century modern furniture designs. Charles and Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen, who had experimented extensively with molded plywood, eagerly embraced fiberglass for pieces such as the La Chaise and the Womb chair, respectively. 

Architect, writer and designer George Nelson created with his team shades for the Bubble lamp using a new translucent polymer skin and, as design director at Herman Miller, recruited the Eameses, Alexander Girard and others for projects at the legendary Michigan furniture manufacturer

Harry Bertoia and Isamu Noguchi devised chairs and tables built of wire mesh and wire struts. Materials were repurposed too: The Danish-born designer Jens Risom created a line of chairs using surplus parachute straps for webbed seats and backrests.

The Risom lounge chair was among the first pieces of furniture commissioned and produced by celebrated manufacturer Knoll, a chief influencer in the rise of modern design in the United States, thanks to the work of Florence Knoll, the pioneering architect and designer who made the firm a leader in its field. The seating that Knoll created for office spaces — as well as pieces designed by Florence initially for commercial clients — soon became desirable for the home.

As the demand for casual, uncluttered furnishings grew, more mid-century furniture designers caught the spirit.

Classically oriented creators such as Edward Wormley, house designer for Dunbar Inc., offered such pieces as the sinuous Listen to Me chaise; the British expatriate T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings switched gears, creating items such as the tiered, biomorphic Mesa table. There were Young Turks such as Paul McCobb, who designed holistic groups of sleek, blond wood furniture, and Milo Baughman, who espoused a West Coast aesthetic in minimalist teak dining tables and lushly upholstered chairs and sofas with angular steel frames.

Generations turn over, and mid-century modern remains arguably the most popular style going. As the collection of vintage mid-century modern chairs, dressers, coffee tables and other furniture for the living room, dining room, bedroom and elsewhere on 1stDibs demonstrates, this period saw one of the most delightful and dramatic flowerings of creativity in design history.