Up5 La Mamma Chair by Gaetano Pesce for B&B Italia
By Gaetano Pesce, B&B Italia
Located in Chicago, IL
c. 1960s. Italy Reupholstered in furrish brown fabric.
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Materials
Fabric
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MINT Black UP5 La Big Mamma UP 2000 Chair & UP6 Ottoman Gaetano Pesce B&B Italia
By B&B Italia, Gaetano Pesce
Located in Basel, BS
Beautiful original Gaetano UP5 + UP6, marked and labeled. Chair and ottoman set, sold together.
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs
Materials
Fabric, Upholstery, Foam
UP5&6 "La Mamma" by Gaetano Pesce designed in 1969
$8,165 / item
UP5&6 "La Mamma" by Gaetano Pesce designed in 1969
Located in Brussels, BE
The iconic UP5 armchair and its matching UP6 ottoman commonly known as “La Mamma”, "La Donna", " Big Mamma" or "Up 50" is imagined in 1969 by Gaetano Pesce and reedited in 2019 by B&...
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Antique 1660s Italian Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs
Materials
Fabric
UP5 La Big Mamma Chair & UP6 Ottoman Gaetano Pesce, 2000s
Located in PARIS, FR
Designed in 1969 by Gaetano Pesce for C&B Italia — soon to become B&B Italia — the UP5/6, known as "La Mamma" or "Donna," remains one of the most politically charged objects ...
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Early 2000s Italian Mid-Century Modern Armchairs
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Gaetano Pesce UP5 Chair and UP6 Ottoman
By Gaetano Pesce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gaetano Pesce UP5 'Donna' chair and UP6 ottoman, 1969 for B and B Italia.
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Gaetano Pesce Up5 Chair for B&B Italia, 1969
By Gaetano Pesce
Located in Las Vegas, NV
Legendary “La Mamma” Up5 lounge chair from iconoclastic designer and artist Gaetano Pesce for B&B Italia in gray.
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Gaetano Pesce for B&B Italia La Mamma UP5 and UP6 Lounge Chair and Ottoman
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H 40 in W 44 in D 44 in
Gaetano Pesce for B&B Italia La Mamma UP5 and UP6 Lounge Chair and Ottoman
By Gaetano Pesce
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Gaetano Pesce for B&B Italia UP5 and UP6 Lounge Chair and Ottoman.
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Gaetano Pesce Up 5 and Up 6 Lounge Chair and Ottoman
By Gaetano Pesce, B&B Italia
Located in Dallas, TX
Gaetano Pesce Up 5 and 6 lounge chair and ottoman.
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Fabric, Foam
Gaetano Pesce's UP5 Chair and UP6 Ottoman for B&B Italia
By B&B Italia, Gaetano Pesce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The UP5 chair represents a female figure tied to a ball-shaped ottoman “symbolizing the shackles that keep woman subjugated.”
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20th Century Italian Lounge Chairs
Gaetano Pesce UP5 Chair and UP6 Ottoman, New Red Upholstery, Huge, Excellent
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H 41 in W 45 in D 46 in
Gaetano Pesce UP5 Chair and UP6 Ottoman, New Red Upholstery, Huge, Excellent
By B&B Italia, Gaetano Pesce
Located in Kansas City, MO
Large Gaetano Pesce Up5 and Up6 chair and ottoman for B & B Italia.
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Gaetano Pesce for B&B Italia UP5 and UP6 Lounge Chair and Ottoman, Signed
By Gaetano Pesce, B&B Italia
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Originally designed in 1969 for a few years before it was discontinued in 1973, the UP5 & 6 lounge chair and ottoman by Gaetano Pesce, also known as the Big Mama, Blow Up and Donna c...
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Materials
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Vintage La Mamma Up5 Bouclé Lounge Chair by Gaetano Pesce for B&B Italian, 1960s
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H 40.56 in W 47.25 in D 51.19 in
Vintage La Mamma Up5 Bouclé Lounge Chair by Gaetano Pesce for B&B Italian, 1960s
By B&B Italia, Gaetano Pesce
Located in Wesseling, DE
Large designer lounge chair "La Mamma" Up 5 with matching ottoman by Gaetano Pesce for B&B Italia.
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs
Materials
Bouclé
UP5 La Mamma UP 2000 Chair & UP6 Ball Ottoman by Gaetano Pesce for B&B Italia
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H 40.56 in W 47.25 in D 51.19 in L 40.56 in
UP5 La Mamma UP 2000 Chair & UP6 Ball Ottoman by Gaetano Pesce for B&B Italia
By B&B Italia, Gaetano Pesce
Located in Izegem, VWV
Designed by Gaetano Pesce in 1969, right from the onset the Up series has been one of the most outstanding expressions of design with its expressive shapes upholstered with elastic f...
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Gaetano Pesce for B & B Italia Up 5 Chair
Located in Philadelphia, PA
huge stretch fabric covered molded foam armed chair
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B&B Italia 'La Mamma' Up 5/6 Lounge Chair & Ottoman, Red Stripe by Gaetano Pesce
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H 40 in W 42 in D 48 in
B&B Italia 'La Mamma' Up 5/6 Lounge Chair & Ottoman, Red Stripe by Gaetano Pesce
By Gaetano Pesce, B&B Italia
Located in Toronto, CA
Since its first appearance, the Up Series, designed in 1969 by Gaetano Pesce, has been one of the most talked about examples of modern furniture design. The exceptional visual impact...
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UP5_6 armchair from the UP 2000 series, by Gaetano Pesce for B&B Italia
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H 40.56 in W 47.25 in D 51.19 in
UP5_6 armchair from the UP 2000 series, by Gaetano Pesce for B&B Italia
By Gaetano Pesce, B&B Italia
Located in Langemark-Poelkapelle, BE
This iconic UP5_6 armchair from the UP 2000 series, designed by Gaetano Pesce and re-released by B&B Italia in 2000, is a true design statement and a must-have for lovers of vintage ...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs
Materials
Fabric, Foam
La Mamma set, armchair and ottoman UP5 and 6 by Gaetano Pesce for B&B Italia
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H 40.56 in W 47.25 in D 51.19 in
La Mamma set, armchair and ottoman UP5 and 6 by Gaetano Pesce for B&B Italia
By Gaetano Pesce, B&B Italia
Located in Lyon, FR
Stunning La Mamma set, 2000 series, made of the UP5 lounge chair and its UP6 ottoman. An iconic design created by Gaetano Pesce in 1969, controversial because of the light it spotte...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Post-Modern Lounge Chairs
Materials
Velvet, Foam
La Mamma Up 5 Lounge Chair & Ottoman for B&B Italia
By Gaetano Pesce, B&B Italia
Located in Los Angeles, CA
La Mamma Up 5 camel lounge chair by Gaetano Pesce for B&B Italia, c.2000s, Italy.
Category
Early 2000s Italian Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs
Materials
Foam, Upholstery
La Mamma Up 5 Bouclé Lounge Chair & Ottoman for B&B Italia
By Gaetano Pesce, B&B Italia
Located in Los Angeles, CA
La Mamma Up 5 powder blue bouclé lounge chair by Gaetano Pesce for B&B Italia, c.2000s, Italy.
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Early 2000s Italian Modern Lounge Chairs
Materials
Bouclé, Foam
La Mamma Up 5 Bouclé Lounge Chair & Ottoman for B&B Italia
By B&B Italia, Gaetano Pesce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
La Mamma Up 5 teddy bear brown bouclé lounge chair by Gaetano Pesce for B&B Italia, c.2000s, Italy.
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Early 2000s Italian Modern Lounge Chairs
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Bouclé, Foam
Gaetano Pesce for B&B Italia UP5 Black Lounge Chair and Ottoman, Restored, 1970s
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H 40.56 in W 47.25 in D 51.19 in
Gaetano Pesce for B&B Italia UP5 Black Lounge Chair and Ottoman, Restored, 1970s
By B&B Italia, Gaetano Pesce
Located in Milano, IT
First designed by Gaetano Pesce in 1969 for a few years before being discontinued, the lounge chair and pouf UP5, also known as Big Mama, Blow Up and Donna, was reissued in 2000 by B...
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Vintage 1970s Italian Modern Armchairs
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Fabric, Jute, Nylon
Gaetano Pesce Up 5 Lounge Chair with Ottoman
By B&B Italia, Gaetano Pesce
Located in Madrid, ES
Designed by Gaetano Pesce in 1969 for a few years before being discontinued, the lounge chair and pouf Up 5, also known as big mama, blow up and donna, was reissued in 2000 by B&B It...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs
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Fabric, Upholstery
Gaetano Pesce for B&B Italia UP5 and UP6 Lounge Chair and Ottoman, Signed
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H 40.5 in W 47.25 in D 51 in
Gaetano Pesce for B&B Italia UP5 and UP6 Lounge Chair and Ottoman, Signed
By B&B Italia, Gaetano Pesce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Originally designed in 1969 for a few years before it was discontinued, the UP5_6 lounge chair and ottoman by Gaetano Pesce, also known as the Big Mama, Blow Up and Donna chair, was ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Lounge Chairs
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"Big Mama" Up 5+6 Chair and ottoman By Gaetano Pesce For B&B Italia
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H 40.56 in W 47.25 in D 51.19 in
"Big Mama" Up 5+6 Chair and ottoman By Gaetano Pesce For B&B Italia
By Gaetano Pesce, B&B Italia
Located in The Hague, NL
Iconic lounge chair + ottoman, model up 5+6 or donna or la mama, designed in 1969 by gaetano pesce for b&b italia.
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs
Materials
Metal
B&B Italia 'La Mamma' Up 5/6 Lounge Chair&Ottoman, Green Stripe by Gaetano Pesce
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H 40 in W 42 in D 48 in
B&B Italia 'La Mamma' Up 5/6 Lounge Chair&Ottoman, Green Stripe by Gaetano Pesce
By B&B Italia, Gaetano Pesce
Located in Toronto, CA
Since its first appearance, the Up Series, designed in 1969 by Gaetano Pesce, has been one of the most talked about examples of modern furniture design. The exceptional visual impact...
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Gaetano Pesce for B&B Italia UP5 Black Lounge Chair and Ottoman, Restored, 1970s
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H 40.56 in W 47.25 in D 51.19 in
Gaetano Pesce for B&B Italia UP5 Black Lounge Chair and Ottoman, Restored, 1970s
By Gaetano Pesce, B&B Italia
Located in Milano, IT
First designed by Gaetano Pesce in 1969 for a few years before being discontinued, the lounge chair and pouf UP5, also known as Big Mama, Blow Up and Donna, was reissued in 2000 by B...
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Vintage 1970s Italian Modern Armchairs
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Fabric, Jute, Nylon
Up 5 Lounge Chair with Up 6 Ottoman by Gaetano Pesce UP2000 Series
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H 40.56 in W 47.25 in D 51.19 in
Up 5 Lounge Chair with Up 6 Ottoman by Gaetano Pesce UP2000 Series
By Gaetano Pesce
Located in Porto, Porto
The Big Mama chair and ottoman designed by Gaetano Pesce in 1969 for B&B Italia. Up 2000 serie. The bulbous-shaped chair, with its connected ottoman, loosely resembles a silhouette...
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Early 2000s Italian Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs
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Fabric, Foam
Gaetano Pesce Up 5 and Up 6 2000 Series Lounge Chair and Ottoman 'La Mamma'
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H 40.16 in W 46.86 in D 47.25 in
Gaetano Pesce Up 5 and Up 6 2000 Series Lounge Chair and Ottoman 'La Mamma'
By B&B Italia, Gaetano Pesce
Located in Zagreb, HR
Up 5 and Up 6 are the lounge chair and ottoman have an anthropomorphic form created as the metaphor of a woman who has always been the target and victim of male prejudice.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs
Materials
Fabric, Foam
Gaetano Pesce "UP-5" Red Striped Chair and Ottoman
By Gaetano Pesce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This was a limited edition with special fabric, which made this chair model famous. Early 1990s. Note: alternate names for this chair design include UP-5, Up5_6 , Big Mama , and Blo...
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1990s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chairs
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Up5 Chair Gaetano For Sale on 1stDibs
Choose from an assortment of styles, material and more with respect to the up5 chair gaetano you’re looking for at 1stDibs. Each up5 chair gaetano for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using foam, plastic and fabric. Your living room may not be complete without an up5 chair gaetano — find older editions for sale from the 20th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 21st Century. An up5 chair gaetano made by Mid-Century Modern designers — as well as those associated with Modern — is very popular.
How Much is a Up5 Chair Gaetano?
The average selling price for an up5 chair gaetano at 1stDibs is $4,795, while they’re typically $3,000 on the low end and $8,500 for the highest priced.
Gaetano Pesce for sale on 1stDibs
Gaetano Pesce was of a generation of Italian architects who in the early 1960s rebelled against the industrial perfection of modernism by conceiving new furniture and objects that were at once expressive and eccentric in form; or you might say they were more like art than functionalist design.
Born in the picturesque coastal Italian city of La Spezia in 1939, Pesce was a precocious talent who could have forged a career as an artist but opted instead to go to Venice to study architecture because, as he has said, it was “the most complex of all the arts.” Rather than having new worlds opened to him at design school, however, Pesce found the rationalist curriculum oppressive in its insistence on standardization and prescribed materials and technologies.
Pesce wanted to explore the latest of both materials and technologies to create objects and buildings never before imagined, with what he called “personalities” that spoke to the issues of the day. He was keen to examine ways to diversify mass production so that each manufactured work could be distinct.
In 1964, Pesce met Cesare Cassina, of the forward-looking furniture company C&B Italia in Milan (now known as B&B Italia), for whom he would create many important designs, beginning with a collection of what he called “transformational furniture” — two chairs and a loveseat — made entirely out of high-density polyurethane foam. To make the pieces easy to ship and cost-efficient, he proposed that after being covered in a stretch jersey, they be put in a vacuum, then heat-sealed flat between vinyl sheets. Once the foam was removed from its packaging, the piece returned to its original shape — hence, the name Up for the series, which debuted in 1969.
In addition to these pieces, Pesce proposed for the collection something he referred to as an “anti-armchair,” which took the shape of a reclining fertility goddess, the iconic Donna.
Producing the piece's complex form turned out to be a technical challenge. Bayer, the foam’s manufacturer, deemed it impossible to accomplish. Pesce persisted and came up with a new procedure, demonstrating not only the designer’s key role in researching the nature and potential of new materials but also his vital importance in “doubting rules.” The Up chair and accompanying ottoman were born, and they were revolutionary in more ways than one.
In the early 1970s, Pesce began exploring one of his key concepts, the idea of the industrial originals. Employing a mold without air holes, and adding a blood-red dye to the polyurethane, he cast a bookcase that resembled a demolished wall, the rough edges of the shelves and posts resulting from fissures in the material made by trapped air.
Through his research into polyurethane, Pesce figured out a way to make a loveseat and armchair using only a simple wood frame and strong canvas covering as a mold. Since the fabric developed random folds during the injection process, the pieces were similar but not identical. Cassina named the suite of furnishings Sit Down and introduced it in 1975. By experimenting with felt soaked in polyurethane and resin, Pesce conceived I Feltri, another collection of armchairs introduced by Cassina in 1987.
Pesce went on to live a life that defied expectation and convention and along the way became one of the most seminal figures in art and design.
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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.
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