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Franz Sartori For Flexform

Italian Magister Lounge Chair and Ottoman by Franz Sartori for Flexform, c1960s
By Franz Sartori, Flexform
Located in Chino Hills, CA
. Franz Sartori, known for his sophisticated and innovative designs, collaborated with Flexform, a
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs

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Wood

Franz Sartori for Flexform Sofa in Black Leather
By Franz Sartori
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Franz T. Sartori for Flexform, two-seat sofa, leather, lacquered wood and chrome, Italy, 1970s
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Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Sofas

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Leather, Wood

Franz Sartori for Flexform Sofa in Black Leather
Franz Sartori for Flexform Sofa in Black Leather
H 27.37 in W 58.67 in D 35.63 in
Pair of Italian Armchairs by Franz Sartori for Flexform, 1965 (Customizable)
By Flexform, Franz Sartori
Located in Argelato, BO
organic forms Franz Sartori is known for. Flexform is one of the best Italian furniture brands that was
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Vintage 1960s Armchairs

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Fabric, Wood

Vintage 3-seater sofa by Franz Sartori for Flexform, Italy 1965 (Customizable)
By Flexform, Franz Sartori
Located in Argelato, BO
the organic forms Franz Sartori is known for. Flexform is one of the best Italian furniture brands
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Sofas

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Fabric, Wood

Pair of Mid-century Modern Italian Armchairs by Franz Sartori for Flexform, 1965
By Flexform, Franz Sartori
Located in Puglia, Puglia
Sartori per Flexform, Milano, Italia, 1965 Sartori è meglio conosciuto per le sue sculture organiche, ma
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Armchairs

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Velvet, Beech

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Italian Mid-Century Olive Green Velvet Armchairs by Franz Sartori for Flexform
By Franz Sartori
Located in Traversetolo, IT
Sartori for Flexform, Milan, Italy, 1965. Sartori is best known for his organic sculptures, but he also
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Armchairs

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Velvet

Mid-century Modern two Armchairs and Sofa by Franz Sartori for Flexform, 1960s
By Flexform, Franz Sartori
Located in Puglia, Puglia
sculptor Franz Sartori for Flexform, Milan, Italy, 1965 Sartori is best known for his organic sculptures
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Sofas

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Velvet, Beech

Pair of Armchairs by Franz Sartori for Flexform, 1965, Italy
By Franz Sartori
Located in Brussels, BE
The present pair is sold in its original fabric. The pair has to be reupholstered as the fabric is old. This why we sell them to a lower price.
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Vintage 1960s Italian Armchairs

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Fabric, Wood

Italian Magister Lounge Chair and Ottoman by Franz Sartori for Flexform, c1960s
Located in Chino Hills, CA
the renowned Italian designer Franz Sartori for Flexform. This iconic mid-century modern set, a real
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Vintage 1960s Lounge Chairs

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Wood

Italian Midcentury three seater Sofà by Franz Sartori for Flexform, 1970s
Located in Traversetolo, IT
Stunning three-seat sofa in green velvet by the Italian sculptor Franz Sartori. This sofa features
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Sofas

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Velvet

Pair of Franz Sartori Armchairs in Bouclé for Flexform, Italy, 1960s
By Flexform, Franz Sartori
Located in Echt, NL
design firm Flexform, Milan. Designed by sculptor and artist Franz T Sartori in the 1960s. Franz
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20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs

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Aluminum

Rare Mohair Lounge Chairs by Italian Sculptor Franz T Sartori, Flexform, 1965
By Franz Sartori
Located in bergen op zoom, NL
Rare and beautiful pair of lounge chairs by italian sculptor and artist Franz T Sartori for
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs

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Mohair, Wood, Hardwood

Mid-century Modern Italian Sofa by Franz Sartori for Flexform, 1965s
By Flexform, Franz Sartori
Located in Puglia, Puglia
Rare and beautiful brown velvet three-seater sofa designed by Italian sculptor Franz Sartori for
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Sofas

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Velvet, Beech

Midcentury Living Room Set Olive Green Color by Franz Sartori for Flexform
By Flexform, Franz Sartori
Located in Traversetolo, IT
armchairs designed by Italian sculptor Franz Sartori for Flexform, Milan, Italy, 1965 Sartori is best known
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Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Sofas

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Velvet

Pair of Spectacular 60s Italian Lounge Chairs New Pure Mohair Velvet Upholstery
By Franz Sartori, Flexform
Located in bergen op zoom, NL
upholstery The design of these chairs is attributed to Franz Sartori for Flexform based on earlier
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs

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Mohair, Velvet

Rare Italian Modern Franz T. Sartori for Flexform Three Seater Sofa
By Flexform, Franz Sartori
Located in Culver City, CA
Available right now I have a rare 3 seat sofa by Italian sculptor Franz. T. Sartori for Flexform
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Sofas

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Bouclé, Hardwood

Rare Lounge Chairs in White Boucle, Franz T. Sartori, Flexform, 1965
By Flexform, Franz Sartori
Located in Culver City, CA
Available right now I have a pair of stunning lounge chairs by Italian sculptor Franz. T. Sartori
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs

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Bouclé

Monumental Pair of 'Magister' Lounge Chairs by Sculptor Franz Sartori, 1966
By Flexform, Franz Sartori
Located in bergen op zoom, NL
sculptor and artist Franz T Sartori for 'Flexform', Milan Italy. This rare and exquisite design was
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs

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Aluminum

Monumental 'Magister' Lounge Chairs and Ottomans by Sculptor Franz Sartori, 1966
By Flexform, Franz Sartori
Located in bergen op zoom, NL
ottomans, designed in 1966 by Italian sculptor and artist Franz T Sartori for 'Flexform', Milan Italy
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs

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Aluminum

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Franz Sartori For Flexform For Sale on 1stDibs

At 1stDibs, there are many versions of the ideal franz sartori for flexform for your home. A franz sartori for flexform — often made from fabric, wood and bouclé — can elevate any home. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect franz sartori for flexform — we have versions that date back to the 20th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 20th Century are available. A franz sartori for flexform, designed in the Mid-Century Modern style, is generally a popular piece of furniture. You’ll likely find more than one franz sartori for flexform that is appealing in its simplicity, but Franz Sartori and Flexform produced versions that are worth a look.

How Much is a Franz Sartori For Flexform?

A franz sartori for flexform can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price 1stDibs is $9,338, while the lowest priced sells for $5,600 and the highest can go for as much as $11,249.

Franz Sartori for sale on 1stDibs

Although Franz Sartori was best known as a sculptor, he was also a talented furniture designer who produced low-slung, streamlined lounge chairs, sofas and other mid-century modern pieces.

Sartori was born Teodoro Antonio Franz Sartori in Milan in 1927. His most fruitful period of designing furniture came in the 1960s and ’70s. During that time, Sartori collaborated with Italian manufacturer Flexform on armchairs, living room sets, sofas and lounge chairs featuring plump cushions, geometric silhouettes and undulating legs. Sartori’s seating was extremely comfortable and came upholstered in fine leather, soft velvet or luxurious bouclé. Additionally, he worked with furniture company Cristal Arte on wall mirrors made of glass, lacquer and crystal arranged in layers of concentric circles.

Throughout his design career, Sartori participated in numerous exhibitions and received several awards, including first prize for design at the International Competition Fiera di Trieste, the Papal Lateran Gold Cross at the Vatican in 1968, the Europremio of Honor for Design in 1970 and La Madonnina International Award in Milan in 1973.

Today, Sartori’s artworks and furniture pieces are found in public and private collections around the world.

On 1stDibs, find a range of vintage Franz T. Sartori seating, mirrors and other furniture.

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.

Finding the Right Seating for You

With entire areas of our homes reserved for “sitting rooms,” the value of quality antique and vintage seating cannot be overstated.

Fortunately, the design of side chairs, armchairs and other lounge furniture — since what were, quite literally, the early perches of our ancestors — has evolved considerably.

Among the earliest standard seating furniture were stools. Egyptian stools, for example, designed for one person with no seat back, were x-shaped and typically folded to be tucked away. These rudimentary chairs informed the design of Greek and Roman stools, all of which were a long way from Sori Yanagi's Butterfly stool or Alvar Aalto's Stool 60. In the 18th century and earlier, seats with backs and armrests were largely reserved for high nobility.

The seating of today is more inclusive but the style and placement of chairs can still make a statement. Antique desk chairs and armchairs designed in the style of Louis XV, which eventually included painted furniture and were often made of rare woods, feature prominently curved legs as well as Chinese themes and varied ornaments. Much like the thrones of fairy tales and the regency, elegant lounges crafted in the Louis XV style convey wealth and prestige. In the kitchen, the dining chair placed at the head of the table is typically reserved for the head of the household or a revered guest.

Of course, with luxurious vintage or antique furnishings, every chair can seem like the best seat in the house. Whether your preference is stretching out on a plush sofa, such as the Serpentine, designed by Vladimir Kagan, or cozying up in a vintage wingback chair, there is likely to be a comfy classic or contemporary gem for you on 1stDibs.

With respect to the latest obsessions in design, cane seating has been cropping up everywhere, from sleek armchairs to lounge chairs, while bouclé fabric, a staple of modern furniture design, can be seen in mid-century modern, Scandinavian modern and Hollywood Regency furniture styles.

Admirers of the sophisticated craftsmanship and dark woods frequently associated with mid-century modern seating can find timeless furnishings in our expansive collection of lounge chairs, dining chairs and other items — whether they’re vintage editions or alluring official reproductions of iconic designs from the likes of Hans Wegner or from Charles and Ray Eames. Shop our inventory of Egg chairs, designed in 1958 by Arne Jacobsen, the Florence Knoll lounge chair and more.

No matter your style, the collection of unique chairs, sofas and other seating on 1stDibs is surely worthy of a standing ovation.