Driade Furniture
Italian
Italian furniture brand Driade offers modern designs that are joyful, whimsical and slightly mischievous — words that might be used to describe the tree nymph of Greek mythology for which the company is named. Faye Toogood’s chunky, stout Roly Poly armchair and Fabio Novembre’s enigmatic Nemo chair — in which a backrest assumes the form of a human face — are just two examples of Driade’s eclectic furnishings.
Driade was founded in 1968 by brother and sister Enrico and Antonia Astori, and Adelaide Acerbi Astori, Enrico’s wife. Described by the company as a “factory of art,” Driade was focused solely on bringing distinctive and creative seating, case pieces and decorative objects to market in its early years. The brand sought to mass-produce decor and furniture that could also be seen as provocative works of art.
Driade's initial collaborations included Italian designers such as Enzo Mari, Nanda Vigo, Giotto Stoppino and Rodolfo Bonetto, to name a few. In the 1980s, the brand worked with influential and renowned designers from around the globe. In 1984, Driade partnered with French designer Philippe Starck and debuted his iconic Costes armchair during the same year. Projects with architects and furniture designers such as Ron Arad, Toyo Ito, Borek Sipek, Patricia Urquiola and others followed into the 2000s.
Over more than five decades — the company celebrated their 50th anniversary in 2018 — Driade’s fruitful partnerships have culminated in a vast catalog of chairs, sofas, coffee tables and other furnishings for the home and garden that evoke a unique and diverse blend of cultures.
Driade has also garnered international acclaim, winning the Compasso d’Oro award in 1979 and 2001 for Enzo Mari’s Delfira chair and ebony-finished, chipboard-top table, and again in 2008 for Ron Arad’s MT3 rocking armchair.
On 1stDibs, discover a range of vintage and contemporary Driade tables, cabinets, armchairs and other furniture.
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Style: Modern
Creator: Driade
Olga Medium Glass Vase w/ Multicolored Detail by Borek Sipek for Driade
By B. Sipek, Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Gorgeous centrepiece with multicolored lace decorations. Olga is a joy for the eyes.
Borek Sipek (1949-2016). after studying interior design at the school for arts and crafts in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Glass
Roly Poly Polyethylene Armchair in Red Brick with Cushions by Faye Toogood
By Driade, Faye Toogood
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The distinctive, reassuringly chunky lines of Faye Toogood’s Roly-Poly furniture collection become even more inviting in her new collaboration with Driade. The latest line for the It...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Fabric, Plastic
"Moleskine" Portable Atelier Stool Designed by Philippe Nigro for Driade
By Driade, Philippe Negro
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Stool adjustable in heigh. Black matt painted steel structure. Seat and components in massive oak. Indoor use only.
Philippe Nigro designed a light looking desk: a top in birch pl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Steel
"Liba" Rattan Covered Natural Cane Armchair Designed by Borek Sipek for Driade
By B. Sipek, Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Liba", designed by Borek Sipek and manufactured by Driade, is a rattan covered natural red and black cane seat and back with solid ebonized wooden front ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Wood, Cane, Rattan
Tottori coffee tables by Kateryna Sokolova for Driade
By Kateryna Sokolova, Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Tottori is a seating and coffee tables collection with timeless shapes, cute silhouette and bold character. Called after the Japanese animation film...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Wood
WIREFLOW Chaise longue by Michel Rojkind for Driade
By Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
We designed the Wireflow chaise longue creating a soft and flexible shell, evoking simple and fluid lines with particular emphasis on ergonomics an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Leather, Fabric
"Soft Egg" Stackable Monobloc Armchair Designed by Philippe Starck for Driade
By Philippe Starck, Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Soft Egg" is a polypropylene monobloc armchair, designed by Philippe Starck and manufactured by Driade, available in white, carnation, dark gray or gray colo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Acate Polished Brass Coat Hanger with Leaves by Borek Sipek for Driade
By B. Sipek, Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Borek Sipek gives us a poetic imitation of nature in this brass coat rack. Shoots become entangled as they rise to the sky.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Brass
Roly Poly Polyethylene Sofa in Concrete with Cushions by Faye Toogood
By Driade, Faye Toogood
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The distinctive, reassuringly chunky lines of Faye Toogood’s Roly-Poly furniture collection become even more inviting in her new collaboration with Driade. The latest line for the It...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Fabric, Plastic
Tottori coffee tables by Kateryna Sokolova for Driade
By Kateryna Sokolova, Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Tottori is a seating and coffee tables collection with timeless shapes, cute silhouette and bold character. Called after the Japanese animation film...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Wood
Ron Arad MT2 Sofa in Polyethylene for Driade
By Ron Arad, Driade
Located in Milan, IT
Innovation, experimentation of the materials and forms. This sofa is an iconic sculptural polyethylene monobloc sofa, designed by Ron Arad and manufactured by Driade, sand white colo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Plastic
"Bo" Stackable Colored Chair Designed by Philippe Starck for Driade
By Philippe Starck, Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Bo" is a stackable chair (max 8 pieces), designed by Philippe Starck and manufactured by Driade, in polypropylene monobloc available in mustard yellow, white, carnation or gray colo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Plastic
LOVE cabinet by Fabio Novembre for Driade
By Fabio Novembre, Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
LOVE is a cabinet with two side hinged doors, with a moveable internal shelf, and with two central full-extension drawers. Structure made of MDF laquered both externally and internally. LOVE lettering in relief as a handle made of lacquered MDF, easily replaceable, thus personalising the storage unit. Adjustable cylindrical feet diameter 3.5 cm. and height 10 cm. in the same colour as the structure. Indoor use only.
With its characterizing and intriguing shape, the LOVE cabinet...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Wood
"Vigilius" Armchair Designed by Matteo Thun and Antonio Rodriguez for Driade
By Matteo Thun and Antonio Rodriguez, Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Vigilius" is an elegant armchair, designed by Matteo Thun and Antonio Rodriguez and manufactured by Driade, with ebonized beechwood legs and polyurethane foams padded wooden structu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Beech, Leather, Fabric, Foam, Wood
Turner Cast Aluminium Candleholder by Xavier Lust for Driade
By Xavier Lust, Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Graceful and charming by itself; romantic in a pair (like a pas-de-deux); mysterious in a group of six, like in a forest: this candleholder by Xavier lust knows how happily spend dif...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Vibert II Candleholder in Burnished Brass with Glass Funnel by Lluis Clotet
By Driade, Lluis Clotet
Located in Brooklyn, NY
These candleholders come in two different sizes and shapes, a phial and a bell, that symbolize a hurricane by Lluìs Clotet. It’s perfect for outdoor windy summer evenings.
Lluis Clo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Brass
MILLEPIEDI Stool by Studio Catoir for Driade
By Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Millepiedi was inspired by the archetypal 3 legged milking stool, a simple minimalistic object yet intriguing and useful. The repetition emphasises, in a playful way, the beauty of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Wood
Leather Lounge Chair 'Lou Read' by Philippe Starck for Driade
By Philippe Starck, Driade
Located in Hellouw, NL
Leather lounge chair 'Lou Read' for Driade. This iconic armchair is designed by Philippe Starck and Eugenio Quitllet. This model is designed for the Monceau H...
Category
2010s French Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Metal
"Toy" Mustard Yellow or Carnation Stackable Armchair by P. Starck for Driade
By Philippe Starck, Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Toy" is a stackable armchair (max 14 pieces), designed by Philippe Starck and manufactured by Driade, in polypropylene monobloc available in mustard yellow or carnation colors. Smocking cotton or 100% preshrunk cotton loose covers...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Acrylic
Side Table Basalt Model by Fredrikson Stallard for Driade, Italy
By Driade, Fredrikson Stallard
Located in Milan, Italy
Much of Fredrikson Stallard’s work is about fragmentation and deconstruction. There are many similarities between studying the beauty of the resulting forms, when deconstructing an o...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Cement, Steel
Philippe Starck Chair Armchair Chair Driade Aleph Model Jack Lang Set of 4
By Philippe Starck, Driade
Located in Munich, Bavaria
These chairs are true Iconic armchairs dining chairs designed by Philippe Starck 1987 for Italian manufacture Driade Aleph.
The Model name is named after the french politician Jack Lang...
Category
1980s Italian Modern Vintage Driade Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Roly Poly Polyethylene Armchair with Cushions, 1stdibs Gallery Showroom Sample
By Driade, Faye Toogood
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The distinctive, reassuringly chunky lines of Faye Toogood’s Roly-Poly furniture collection become even more inviting in her new collaboration with Driade. The latest line for the It...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Fabric, Plastic
Simon Large Silver Plated Seven-Branched Candleholder by Borek Sipek for Driade
By B. Sipek, Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The seven branches of the candleholder by Borek Sipek design are pushing up with sinuous curves, as if they were shoots of a wild plant.
Borek Sipek (1949-2016) studied interior des...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Silver
100 Piazze Palmanova Piazza Grande Silver Plated Tray by Fabio Novembre
By Fabio Novembre, Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
In this collection, the most famous squares in Italy and the monuments that surround them come alive in centrepieces designed by Fabio Novembre: like from Turin to Lucca, and from Fl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Brass
"MT1" Sculptural Monobloc Armchair Designed by Ron Arad for Driade
By Driade, Ron Arad
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"MT1" is an iconic sculptural polyethylene monobloc armchair, designed by Ron Arad and manufactured by Driade, sand white colored outside and red, lilac, black or violet colored insi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Plastic
Tottori Armchair by Kateryna Sokolova for Driade
By Driade, Kateryna Sokolova
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Tottori is a seating and coffee tables collection with timeless shapes, cute silhouette and bold character. Called after the Japanese animation film “My Neighbor Totoro”, written and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Leather, Fabric
Philippe Starck "Objet Perdu" Style Chair
By Driade, Philippe Starck
Located in Miami, FL
Chromed steel tubular frame chair with original upholstered seat. In the style of Philippe Starck.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Steel
"Tokyo-Pop" White or Black Monobloc High Table by Tokujin Yoshioka for Driade
By Driade, Tokujin Yoshioka
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Tokyo-Pop" is a white or black anthracite polyethylene monobloc iconic high table, designed by Tokujin Yoshioka and manufactured by Driade.
White version only is available in quick...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Plastic
"Mingx" Outdoor Steel Armchair Designed by Konstantin Grcic for Driade
By Driade, Konstantin Grcic
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Mingx" is an outdoor armchair, designed by Konstantin Grcic and manufactured by Driade, with structure in printed steel sheet and rod with protective cataphoresis treatment polyeste...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Steel
"Costes" Curved Mahogany or Grey Oak Plywood Armchair by P. Stark for Driade
By Philippe Starck, Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Costes" is an iconic armchair, designed by Philippe Starck and manufactured by Driade, with a black painted tubular steel structure and curved mahogany, ebonized mahogany or gray oa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Steel
Pair of Enzo Mari Cuginetto Side Tables, Driade, Italy, 1970
By Driade, Enzo Mari
Located in London, GB
SOLD AS A PAIR.
As Oliver Basciano wrote in Enzo Mari’s obituary in the Guardian in 2020, politics infused everything that designer Enzo Mari touched. An ardent communist, Mari hate...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Driade Furniture
Materials
Steel
"Cugino" Tempered Glass and Painted Steel Dining Table by Enzo Mari for Driade
By Driade, Enzo Mari
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Cugino" is a dining table, designed by Enzo Mari and manufactured by Driade, featuring a black anthracite painted steel sections structure with round or square tempered glass th. 0....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Steel
SANGAKU coffee table by Elena Salmistraro for Driade
By Driade, Elena Salmistraro
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Sangaku is a fun game of intersections, rotations and dimensional changes. In Japanese culture, Sangaku are geometric problems engraved on wooden tablets...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Steel
Ron Arad MT3 Seat in Polyethylene for Driade
By Driade, Ron Arad
Located in Milan, IT
These MT3 rocking chairs were design by Ron Arad for Driade and made of a monobloc rotational moulding polyethylene in sand white coloured outside and red coloured inside.
Characte...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Plastic
"Piaffe'' White or Light Grey Coffee Table by L. and R. Palomba for Driade
By Ludovica + Roberto Palomba 1, Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Piaffe'' is a white or light grey polyethylene monobloc iconic coffee table, designed by Ludovica e Roberto Palomba and manufactured by Driade.
White version only is available in quick ship.
Indoor and outdoor use.
DIMENSIONS:
D. 48", W. 35.4", H. 13.3"
An outdoor sofa designed for the old and very noble art of conversation. Everyone can find his own ideal depth of seating position and posture on this sofa: more composed or more gently relaxed, depending on mood or circumstances of the day.
Ludovica e Roberto Palomba wanted Grand Plié...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Plastic
"Moleskine" Portable Atelier Desk Designed by Philippe Nigro for Driade
By Driade, Philippe Negro
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Moleskine" is a desk, designed by Philippe Nigro and manufactured by Driade, with a folding top in birch plywood and oak veneer.
Matte black painted steel structure with cable flap....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Steel
Philippe Starck Cinemascope Armchair in Goose Feather Padding, 2017
By Philippe Starck, Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Swivel armchair with rocking mechanisms. Brushed stainless steel base with adjustable feet. Polyurethane foams and goose feather padding. Fabric removabl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Stainless Steel
"Torquemada" Carved Brushed Oak or Lacquered Beech Armchair by P. Starck, Driade
By Driade, Philippe Starck
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Torquemada" is an armchair, designed by Philippe Starck and manufactured by Driade, with a structure available in the following versions: brushed oak, brushed oak with carved backrest and seat or in matt lacquered textured beech in white, gray, yellow, lavender gray or carnation colors.
Backrest element support is in polished or mirror finished cast aluminum. Indoor use only.
DIMENSIONS:
D. 18.8", W. 21.2", H. 30.5", Seat H. 18.3"
Although these pieces of design seem apparently imperfect and unique, the collection is composed of a table and a set of seats: a chair, an armchair and a stool. The latter feature two handcuffs in mirror-polished stainless steel, a detail that is as structural as well as decorative and ironically reminiscent of the imagery coming from the ancient Inquisition and its infamous and fearsome prosecutor. A link that regards the concept as well as the project and explains where the name of this collection comes from. Each piece is also available in a more precious version, in gouged oak...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
"Torquemada" Carved Brushed Oak or Lacquered Beech Stool by P. Starck for Driade
By Driade, Philippe Starck
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Torquemada" is a stool, designed by Philippe Starck and manufactured by Driade, with a structure available in the following versions: brushed oak, brushed oak with carved backrest and seat or in matt lacquered textured beech in white, gray, yellow, lavender gray, or carnation colors. Backrest element support is in polished or mirror finished cast aluminum. Indoor use only.
DIMENSIONS:
D. 18.8", W. 16.1", H. 40.5", Seat H. 28.7"
Although these pieces of design seem apparently imperfect and unique, the collection is composed of a table and a set of seats: a chair, an armchair and a stool. The latter feature two handcuffs in mirror-polished stainless steel, a detail that is as structural as well as decorative and ironically reminiscent of the imagery coming from the ancient Inquisition and its infamous and fearsome prosecutor. A link that regards the concept as well as the project and explains where the name of this collection comes from. Each piece is also available in a more precious version, in gouged oak...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Orfeo Large Glass Bowl with Multicolored Fruit Detail by Borek Sipek for Driade
By B. Sipek, Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Orfeo is a triumph of fruits of colored glass, an ironic and joyful centrepiece.
Borek Sipek (1949-2016) studied interior design at the school for Arts & Crafts in Prague from 1964-1968. He went to Germany to study architecture at the Kunsthochschule in Hamburg. He also studied aesthetics and philosophy. In 1983, he moved to the Netherlands and set up the design office that provided a base for his subsequent explorations of oriental and occidental arts and crafts. His fateful encounter with Driade resulted in furniture and objects. The ideas eventually found their way into the Eidos, Malastrana and Follies Collections. Sipek's systematic revisitations of traditional craft techniques and materials have won several prestigious awards including, the Croix Chevalier Dans L'ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres from the French Government in 1991. In 1993, he won the Prins Bernard Fons Prize for architecture and arts. Sipek has an international reputation as an imaginative and versatile artist. He was appointed Prague castle architect by Czech president, Vaclav Havel. He worked from 1992 to 1996 on architectural detailing and other features of Joze Plecnik...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Glass
Pierre Small Red and Glass Vase by Borek Sipek for Driade
By B. Sipek, Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The vase by Borek Sipek has leaves, shoots, thorns and twigs clinging on their surface. A whole world of fantasy stolen from the world of plants.
Borek Sipek (1949-2016) studied int...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Glass
Peary II Medium Glass Vase by Borek Sipek for Driade
By B. Sipek, Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The vases by borek sipek have onion, leaves, shoots, thorns and twigs clinging on their top. A whole world of fantasy stolen from the plants’ one. Peary is available in transparent o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Glass
"Erbale" PVC Plant Holder Designed by Becchelli, Bortolani, Maffei for Driade
By Becchelli, Bortolani, Maffei, Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Erbale" is a transparent PVC plant holder, designed by Becchelli, Bortolani, Maffei and manufactured by Driade, equipped with four plants and four water bags. Packing unit is ten pi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Plastic
Italian Modern Glass Wood Steel Dining Table Frate by Enzo Mari for Driade, 1973
By Enzo Mari, Driade
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian modern glass, steel and wooden dining table Frate by Enzo Mari for Driade, 1973
Dining table mod. Frate with rectangular tempered glass top, with rounded corners. The centra...
Category
1980s Modern Vintage Driade Furniture
Materials
Steel
"Meridiana" Polycarbonate and Steel Chair Designed by C. Pillet for Driade
By Christophe Pillet, Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Meridiana" is an iconic chair, designed by Christophe Pillet and manufactured by Driade, with a chromed or matte black painted steel structure and with a shell in polycarbonate in w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Steel
"Mingx" Leather and Steel Armchair Designed by Konstantin Grcic for Driade
By Driade, Konstantin Grcic
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Mingx" is an armchair, designed by Konstantin Grcic and manufactured by Driade, with structure in printed steel sheet and rod with polyester painted in orange, light gray, bronze or...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Steel
"Ed Archer" Leather and Polished Aluminum Chair by Philippe Starck for Driade
By Philippe Starck, Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Ed Archer" is an iconic chair with tubular steel shell with spring units and polished casting aluminum rear leg.
Fixed leather cover in two different versio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Aluminum, Steel
"Blocco" Fuchsia or Blue Faux Fur Pouf Designed by Nanda Vigo for Driade
By Nanda Vigo, Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Blocco" is a pouf, designed by Nanda Vigo and manufactured by Driade, with wooden frame and padding in polyurethane foam of varying density. Upholstery in fuchsia or blue faux fur.
Indoor use only.
DIMENSIONS:
D. 19.2", W. 17.3", H. 22.8", Seat H. 14.1"
The "Blocco" seat / pouf, designed with such purpose in 1970, has got now a fresh re-edition with the same function but with a more joyful spirit by offering colorful covers. Have a nice seat!
Nanda Vigo said about "Blocco":
"Many elements called “furniture” are needed that actually remain “fixed”, once set, to the well-being. I've always rejected the tendency to overload space; therefore I have always worked to the limit of need."
NANDA VIGO, born in Milan in 1936, lives in East Africa and works in Milan. She showed an interest in art at a very early age, when she had the opportunity to spend time with Filippo de Pisis, a family friend, and to study the architecture of Giuseppe Terragni, in which she immediately noticed the subtle employment of natural light. She studied architecture at the Ecole Polytechnique in Lausanne, worked as an intern in San Francisco, then returned to Italy where she opened her own studio in Milan.
The underlying characteristic of the work has always been the relationship between light and space, which she has developed in a series of “environments” that blend architecture and design. In 1959 she began to visit the studio of Lucio Fontana and got to know that artists who founded the Azimut Gallery in Milan: Piero Manzoni, Enrico Castellani and Vincenzo Agnetti. During that period, she developed relations with the artists of the Zero group in Germany, the Netherlands and France, as a result of which her work was shown in more than 400 solo and group exhibitions throughout Europe.
Between 1964 and 1966 she participated in some thirteen Zero exhibitions, including “Nul 65” at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and “Zero: An Exhibition of European Experimental Art” at the Modern Art Gallery in Washington D.C.. She was the curator of the legendary exhibition “Zero avantgarde” in 1965 in Fontana’s studio in Milan, at which some 28 artists were represented. In 1964 she created Utopie with Lucio Fontana for the Triennale. Again at the Triennale, in 1973 she organized a performance at which architects and artists freely intervened: it's considered to have been the first happening at the event.
In 1974 she received the New York Award for the Industrial Design for the Golden Gate lamp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Foam, Wood, Faux Fur
"Blocco" Black Mongolian Fur or Velvet Pouf Designed by Nanda Vigo for Driade
By Nanda Vigo, Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Blocco" is a pouf, designed by Nanda Vigo and manufactured by Driade, with wooden frame and padding in polyurethane foam of varying density. Upholstery in black Mongolian fur or in Loira velvet.
Indoor use only.
DIMENSIONS:
D. 19.2", W. 17.3", H. 22.8", Seat H. 14.1"
The “Blocco” seat / pouf, designed with such purpose in 1970, has got now a fresh re-edition with the same function but with a more joyful spirit by offering colorful covers. Have a nice seat!
Nanda Vigo said about "Blocco":
"Many elements called “furniture” are needed that actually remain “fixed”, once set, to the well-being. I've always rejected the tendency to overload space; therefore I have always worked to the limit of need."
NANDA VIGO, born in Milan in 1936, lives in East Africa and works in Milan. She showed an interest in art at a very early age, when she had the opportunity to spend time with Filippo de Pisis, a family friend, and to study the architecture of Giuseppe Terragni, in which she immediately noticed the subtle employment of natural light. She studied architecture at the Ecole Polytechnique in Lausanne, worked as an intern in San Francisco, then returned to Italy where she opened her own studio in Milan.
The underlying characteristic of the work has always been the relationship between light and space, which she has developed in a series of “environments” that blend architecture and design. In 1959 she began to visit the studio of Lucio Fontana and got to know that artists who founded the Azimut Gallery in Milan: Piero Manzoni, Enrico Castellani and Vincenzo Agnetti. During that period, she developed relations with the artists of the Zero group in Germany, the Netherlands and France, as a result of which her work was shown in more than 400 solo and group exhibitions throughout Europe.
Between 1964 and 1966 she participated in some thirteen Zero exhibitions, including “Nul 65” at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and “Zero: An Exhibition of European Experimental Art” at the Modern Art Gallery in Washington D.C.. She was the curator of the legendary exhibition “Zero avantgarde” in 1965 in Fontana’s studio in Milan, at which some 28 artists were represented. In 1964 she created Utopie with Lucio Fontana for the Triennale. Again at the Triennale, in 1973 she organized a performance at which architects and artists freely intervened: it's considered to have been the first happening at the event.
In 1974 she received the New York Award for the Industrial Design for the Golden Gate lamp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Fur, Velvet, Wood
"Cuginetto" Tempered Glass and Steel Coffee Table by Enzo Mari for Driade
By Enzo Mari, Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Cuginetto" is a coffee table, designed by Enzo Mari and manufactured by Driade, featuring a black anthracite painted steel sections structure with round or square tempered glass th....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Steel
"Lou Eat" Leather Dining Chair Designed by Philippe Starck for Driade
By Driade, Philippe Starck
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Lou Eat" is a dining chair, designed by Philippe Starck with Dai Sugasawa and manufactured by Driade, with a compact high density polyurethane structure reinforced by a metal insert. Leather cover.
Indoor use only.
DIMENSIONS:
D. 23.2", W. 22.8", H. 31.8", Seat H. 17.7"
Philippe Starck said about "Lou Eat":
“Lou Eat is not a chair, it's an animal-like sculpture that could eat you.”
"Lou Eat" and "Lou Think", along with "Lou Read...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Metal
Ludovica and Roberto Palomba Driade "Sissi" Armchair in Glass Fiber, 2017
By Driade, Ludovica + Roberto Palomba 1
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The new armchair designed by Ludovica and Roberto Palomba and manufactured by Driade– Sissi - is a sculptural, very versatile, self-centred and contemporary piece. Sissi is made in p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Fiberglass
Greeky Medium White Vase by Analogia Project for Driade
By Driade, Analogia Project
Located in Brooklyn, NY
With ironic sophistication, the Greeky collection offers a modern interpretation of ancient Greek pottery that, by tradition, narrates the epic g...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Vigny Medium Blown Glass Wine Jug by Borek Sipek for Driade
By B. Sipek, Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Borek Sipek invites us to visit a world similar to the circus and Italian opera. The characters are all there, from the decanters, similar to a clown cap, to the jugs with skirt and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Blown Glass
"Lago'" Lacquered Shell and Aluminum Legs Chair by Philippe Starck for Driade
By Philippe Starck, Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Lago'" is a chair, designed by Philippe Starck and manufactured by Driade, made of a stiff polyurethane shell, supported by thin aluminum legs, and is available in a vast sampler of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
"Nemo" Denim Colored Head-Armchair Designed by Fabio Novembre for Driade, 2017
By Fabio Novembre, Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Nemo" is an iconic polyethylene monobloc head-armchair available in denim color, made by rotational molding.
Fixed (indoor and outdoor use) or swivel (indoor use only) versions available.
DIMENSIONS:
D. 32.6", W. 35.4", H. 53.1", Seat H. 16.1"
FABIO NOVEMBRE uses furniture design to tell intense and fascinating stories in which the protagonist is often the human figure. This human figure is capable of becoming abstract and universal, able to propose a mythical beauty as occurred in Greek art. So that Nemo, a face with classic features, is hollowed out to create an inhabitable space. The result is a head-armchair to be lived from the inside. Like a mask, it simultaneously conceals and reveals its inhabitant.
Fabio Novembre said about Nemo:
"In 2010 it happened that the name "Nemo" immediately evoked the famous little fish, protagonist of the movie of the same name, made by Pixar in 2003.
If this question had been asked at the end of the nineteenth century, the answer would have probably been Captain Nemo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Acrylic
Tottori Sofa by Kateryna Sokolova for Driade
By Driade, Kateryna Sokolova
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Tottori is a seating and coffee tables collection with timeless shapes, cute silhouette and bold character. Called after the Japanese animation film “My Neighbor Totoro”, written and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Leather, Fabric
Tottori coffee tables by Kateryna Sokolova for Driade
By Driade, Kateryna Sokolova
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Tottori is a seating and coffee tables collection with timeless shapes, cute silhouette and bold character. Called after the Japanese animation film...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Driade Furniture
Materials
Wood
Driade furniture for sale on 1stDibs.
Driade furniture are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of metal and are designed with extraordinary care. There are many options to choose from in our collection of Driade furniture, although gray editions of this piece are particularly popular. We have 87 vintage editions of these items in-stock, while there is 603 modern edition to choose from as well. Many of the original furniture by Driade were created in the modern style in europe during the 21st century and contemporary. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider furniture by Paola Navone, Gervasoni, and Cappellini. Prices for Driade furniture can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $70 and can go as high as $36,000, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $2,325.