Carlo Ratti Seating

Italian-designed '' Boomerang '' Desk Chair by Carlo Ratti. This modern and playful chair exudes joy with its colorful and cheerful Skai upholstery in or...

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...

A striking 20th Century set of six bentwood dining chairs with metal legs and boucle seat pads, designed by Italian designer Carlo Ratti in 1950. Carlo Ratti was an Italian designer...

Mid century italian chair by Carlo Ratti beech wood, oak wood, black suede leather , steel , brass . We have carried out a complete restoration along with some light restying on thi...

Two beautiful original Carlo Ratti chairs, manufactured by his company Industria Legni Curvati, based in Lissone, Milan.

This Italian chair model was designed in the 1950s by Carlo Ratti for Industira Legni Curvati Lissoni and is made of bentwood and black lacquered metal legs. The rounded shapes and t...

A remarkable example of mid-century Italian office seating, this “Genziana” chair was designed by Carlo Ratti in 1958 for Industria Legni Curvati Lissone. Its sleek, curved plywood s...

We fully restored this set by adding new small pieces of veneer (where needed) to all the chairs and lacquering them three times. More than 10% of the veneer had to be replaced but h...

Carlo Ratti for Industria Legni Curvati, set of four dining chairs, plywood with a teak fineer and metal, Italy, 1970s. An elegant set of Italian dining chairs featuring a sleek met...

Pair of armchairs realized is an italian production, designed by Carlo Ratti in 1960s. Measures: Maximum backrest height 80 cm, Seat height 44cm, Seat width 50cm, Seat depth 48cm...

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

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

Highly elegant pair of armchairs designed by Carlo Ratti and manufactured by Industria Legni Curvati, Italy 1950s. These visually appealing armchairs have a very nice and extraordina...

A sculptural molded dark walnut plywood swiveling Hourglass desk chair with stainless steel star base . The unique styling of the chair would make it a statement piece in any home of...

1950s Boomerang model desk chair by Carlo Ratti of Italian manufacture and great quality. From their design comes the model name "Boomerang." The characteristic shape of the wooden ...

Set of 2 This Italian chair model was designed in the 1950s by Carlo Ratti for Industira Legni Curvati Lissoni and is made of bentwood and black lacquered metal legs. The rounded sh...

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...

Rare and large grouping of early Carlo Ratti molded plywood chairs ; seat height, tapered iron leg and interesting strap hinge detail on the back. All in original condition. Avantgar...

a set of 6 original blond wood dining chairs by Carlo Ratti, Italian, 1950's. Please note that we often have a much shorter handling time than advertised.

Six Chairs by Carlo Ratti, Made in Italy, 1950.  Original in both structure and fabric. The frame is beech veneer wood, faux leather cover with ci patterned red/black color. The fram...

This Italian chair model was designed in the 1950s by Carlo Ratti for Industira Legni Curvati Lissoni and is made of bentwood and black lacquered metal legs. The rounded shapes and t...

Carlo Ratti original chairs mid-century bentwood Italian design.

Carlo Ratti chairs.

Two beautiful original Carlo Ratti bentwood chairs, manufactured by his company Industria Legni Curvati, based in Lissone, Milan. New upholstered with a two-tone fabric.

An icon of Italian design this chair in curved wood by Carlo Ratti, 1955.

Pair of 50's bentwood chairs Designer Carlo Ratti.

Very rare and beautiful Italian 3-seat bench by Carlo Ratti, 1950's. It is made of 3 molded teak seats supported by black steel legs, accented with brass hardware. Designed w...

Three seater bench designed by Carlo Ratti in 1950's, Italy. Three seats in teak plywood with black lacquered metal frame. Rare model with sinuous curved shapes. Two pieces available.

Set of six dining chairs with backs and seats realized in curved veneered plywood and legs in black lacquered metal, designed by Carlo Ratti and manufactured by Industria Legni Curvati (Lissone, Italy) 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 is a set of six dining chairs designed by Carlo Ratti for Industria Legni Curvati in the 1960s. The chairs are formed from bent plywood with a teak veneer, and have black tubula...