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Mario Botta Furniture

Swiss, b. 1943

Swiss architect Mario Botta may be renowned for his impressive postmodern architecture projects such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, but the chairs, lighting and other furniture he created reflect a mastery of geometrically rich forms and an elegant application of simple symmetry.

Born in Mendrisio, Switzerland, in 1943, Botta gained an interest in architecture at an early age. He apprenticed at the architectural firm Carloni and Camenisch and designed his first building — a two-family house at Morbis Superiore in Ticino — at age 16. During the early 1960s, Botta attended the Liceo Artistico in Milan and then studied at the University Institute of Architecture in Venice under art historian Giuseppe Mazzariol and influential Italian architect Carlo Scarpa.

While studying in Venice, Botta worked for Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier — whose career spanned hundreds of architecture projects — and gained inspiration from Estonian-American architect Louis Kahn, who was known for his modern and brutalist architectural style. In 1969, Botta completed his studies and established his practice in Lugano, designing and building single-family homes.

Throughout the 1970s, Botta gained fame for his innovative, geometrical designs and deceptively simple forms, such as his first large-scale building project in 1977 — the Middle School in Morbio Inferiore, Switzerland. Botta later established himself as one of the masters of 1980s postmodern design in his architecture and his furniture. His postmodern ideas characterize the dining room tables and seating he designed for companies such as Alias, as well as his table lamps and floor lamps for Artemide.

Botta’s noteworthy architectural projects designed during the 1990s and 2000s include the Cymbalista Synagogue and Jewish Heritage Center in Tel Aviv, Israel; the Monastery of the Holy Apostles Saint Peter and Andrew in Lviv, Ukraine; and the Theater of Architecture in Mendrisio, in 2018.

On 1stDibs, discover a range of vintage Mario Botta lighting fixtures, seating, tables and decorative objects.

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Creator: Mario Botta
1987 Set of Four Dining Chairs La Tonda Mario Botta Italian Orange Leather Metal
By Alias, Mario Botta
Located in Milano, IT
A set of four ‘Latonda’ chairs, 1987 Tubular metal structure with seat in orange stretched leather. Made by Alias, Italy. Sticky label ‘Alias Italy’ on the metal structure underne...
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1880s Italian Mid-Century Modern Antique Mario Botta Furniture

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Metal

Mario Botta - Early Shogun table lamp
By Artemide, Mario Botta
Located in Brussels, BE
For Mario Botta, the Shogun table lamp represents a person, whether it's turned on or off. Its adjustable double-layered shade creates different shadows through the perforated steel ...
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1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mario Botta Furniture

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Steel

"Seconda 602" Chairs by Mario Botta for Alias, 1980s, set of 6
By Alias, Mario Botta
Located in bruxelles, BE
Set of 6 gray and black chairs by Mario Botta. Stamped Alias. Seat height: 46 cm. Wear due to time and age of chairs. For shipping, request us for receive the best price.
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1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mario Botta Furniture

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Metal

‘Shogun’ Floor Lamp by Mario Botta for Artemide, Italy 1980s
By Mario Botta
Located in Chicago, IL
A ‘Shogun’ Lamp by Swiss Architect Mario Botta for Artemide designed in 1986 as part of their Masters Collection. A true icon of design, the Shogun lamp is now on display at the Metr...
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1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Mario Botta Furniture

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Metal, Iron

Alias Zeta stool by Mario Botta
By Alias, Mario Botta
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Zeta stool recalls the letter from which it takes its name: two square elements, serving as base and seat, are joined by a diagonal element secured by a comb joint at each end. T...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Mario Botta Furniture

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Natural Fiber

“PRIMA” by Mario Botta , 1990s
By Mario Botta
Located in Tokyo, Tokyo
This is a vintage "PRIMA" chair designed by renowned Swiss architect Mario Botta. This item was originally designed as interior decor for a building designed by Mario Botta. The curv...
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1990s Italian Post-Modern Mario Botta Furniture

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Steel

Shogun Floor Lamp by Mario Botta for Artemide, 1980s
By Mario Botta, Artemide
Located in Chicago, IL
The “Shogun” Lamp by Swiss Architect Mario Botta for Artemide designed in 1986 as part of their “Masters” Collection. A true icon of design, the Shogun lamp is now on display at the ...
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1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Mario Botta Furniture

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Metal

Mint Green Quinta Chairs by Mario Botta for Alias, 1980s
By Mario Botta
Located in Renens, CH
The Quinta Chair is an iconic piece of design, with use of perforated sheet metal and tubing,which are typical for Botta’s furniture and lamps. The lines of these chairs are sharp, r...
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1980s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mario Botta Furniture

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Aluminum

Mario Botta for Artemide ‘Shogun’ Floor Lamp
By Mario Botta, Artemide
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Mario Botta for Artemide, 'Shogun' floor lamp, aluminum, steel, Italy, 1986 Mario Botta referred to lamps as “people”. He said “Shogun is a ...
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1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Mario Botta Furniture

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Aluminum, Steel

Postmodern Room Divider / Paravent, Nilla Rosa by Mario Botta for Alias, 1980s
By Alias, Mario Botta
Located in Renens, CH
Nilla Rosa room divider by Mario Botta for Alias, Italy. No longer in production. The room divider or paravent consists of two sheets of perforated metal bent into geometrical sh...
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1990s Italian Post-Modern Mario Botta Furniture

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Metal

Italian Model Shogun Tavolo Table Lamp by Mario Botta for Artemide, 1980s
By Mario Botta
Located in Hamburg, DE
Imposing table lamp by Artemide based on a design by Mario Botta from the 80s.

Postmodernism in its purest form in color and materiality. A timeless design classic that easily fits ...
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20th Century Italian Post-Modern Mario Botta Furniture

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Metal

Postmodern Mario Botta Terzo Coffee Table by Alias, 1980s
By Alias, Mario Botta
Located in Renens, CH
Custom designed coffee table by Mario Botta, produced by Alias (Italy) for the Ransila Building 1, Lugano, Switzerland: This marble top coffee table is an adjustment of the serie-pr...
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1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Mario Botta Furniture

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Marble, Metal

Mario Botta Tesi table Alias 1986
By Mario Botta
Located in Grenoble, FR
Mario Botta, a key figure in contemporary architecture and design, was born on April 1, 1943 in Mendrisio, in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. From a young age, he was interested...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Mario Botta Furniture

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Steel

Alias Saturno 48 Low Table by Mario Botta
By Alias, Mario Botta
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Coffee table with base made of four elements in MDF Valchromat® (mass-coloured and transparent lacquered) attached to a structural steel cylinder, glossy black lacquered. Top availa...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Mario Botta Furniture

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Aluminum

Postmodern Vintage Black White wall Lamp Shogun Mario Botta Artemide 1986 Italy
By Artemide, Mario Botta
Located in Milano, IT
Postmodern Vintage Black White wall Lamp Shogun Mario Botta Artemide 1986 Italy Postmodern vintage wall lamp by Mario Bott in black and white color made in metal circa 1986, Italy....
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1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Mario Botta Furniture

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Metal, Sheet Metal

Set of Four "Quinta" Chairs Designed by Mario Botta for Alias, 1985
By Mario Botta, Alias
Located in taranto, IT
Set of four "Quinta" model chairs, designed by Mario Botta for Alias, in the 1980s. Entirely made of metal, with a very particular shape, they are in excellent condition. Measu...
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1980s Italian Vintage Mario Botta Furniture

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Metal

Postmodern Artemide Fidia Wall Lamp by Mario Botta, 1980s
By Mario Botta, Artemide
Located in Renens, CH
Vintage Artemide wall lamp, model Fidia – a design by the architect Mario Botta (1986). No longer in production. The two halogen bulbs can be ch...
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1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Mario Botta Furniture

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Metal, Aluminum

“Quinta 605” Postmodern Armchairs by Mario Botta for Alias, Italy, Set of 6
By Mario Botta, Alias
Located in Bagnolo Mella, Brescia
A bold expression of Italian postmodernism, this set of six “Quinta 605” armchairs was designed by renowned architect Mario Botta and produced by Alias around 1980. With their sculpt...
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1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Mario Botta Furniture

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Steel

Early Mario Botta “Shogun” Lamp
By Mario Botta, Artemide
Located in Chicago, IL
ft. a moving shade that affects the distribution of light. It has a European plug but comes with an adapter. This piece has HEAVY patina including paint flaking, scratches, rust, and...
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1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mario Botta Furniture

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Metal

Mario Botta Vintage "Shogun" Floor Lamp by Artemide
By Mario Botta, Artemide
Located in North Miami, FL
Italian floor lamp designed by the Italian architect, Mario Botta for Artemide, 1980s. The black base is made of cast iron, the powder coated shaft is back and white striped. Two ...
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1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mario Botta Furniture

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Metal, Iron

'Shogun' Floor Lamp by Mario Botta for Artemide, Italy, 1980s
By Mario Botta, Artemide
Located in Milano, IT
Mario Botta thinks that the lamp is like a people and he said “Shogun is a person. He has a head, body and feet, plus he has a navel”. Renowned for his consistent incorporation of ge...
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1880s Italian Post-Modern Antique Mario Botta Furniture

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Metal, Iron

Set of 3 Silver Artemide Shogun Wall Lights by Mario Botta, 1980s
By Artemide, Mario Botta
Located in Niederdorfelden, Hessen
Elegant set of 3 Artemide Shogun Parete wall lamps designed by Mario Botta for Artemide, Milano, Italy in 1980s. Marked on the frame. Mario Botta is a postmodern Swiss architect and ...
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Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Mario Botta Furniture

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Metal, Silver Plate

"Quinta" Dining Chairs by Mario Botta for Alias, 1980s, set of 8
By Alias, Mario Botta
Located in bruxelles, BE
Set of 8 black metal chairs designed by Mario Botta for Alias. Quinta model. Stamped Alias. Seat height: 43 cm Wear due to time and age. FOR SHIPPING, REQUEST US FOR RECEIVE THE BEST...
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1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mario Botta Furniture

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Metal

Mario Botta Vintage Black and Ivory Floor Lamp Shogun Terra 1980s Italy
By Mario Botta
Located in Vienna, AT
Modern vintage floor lamp designed by Mario Botta 1980s for Artemide Italy from ivory and black striped aluminum and tubular steel. The gorgeous construction shows geometric element...
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Late 20th Century Italian Modern Mario Botta Furniture

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Aluminum

Shogun wall lamp by Mario Botta for Artemide , 1980s
By Artemide, Mario Botta
Located in Athens, Attiki
The Shogun wall lamp was designed in the 1980s by Italian designer Mario Botta for the manufacturer Artemide. It is known for its distinctive design, which combines geometric shapes ...
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1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Mario Botta Furniture

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Metal

Mario Botta, 'Seconda' Black Metal Chairs, Alias Mod. 602, 1980s
By Mario Botta
Located in Argelato, BO
Three 'Seconda' chairs designed by the famous architect Mario Botta for the Italian firm Alias, model 602. All three are painted black both in the structure and in the seat, they bea...
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1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Mario Botta Furniture

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Steel

“PRIMA” by Mario Botta , 1990s
By Mario Botta
Located in Tokyo, Tokyo
This is a vintage "PRIMA" chair designed by renowned Swiss architect Mario Botta. This item was originally designed as interior decor for a building designed by Mario Botta. The curv...
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1990s Italian Post-Modern Mario Botta Furniture

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Steel

Mario Botta for Artemide, ‘Shogun’ table lamp, Italy 1986
By Artemide, Mario Botta
Located in Torino, IT
Mario Botta for Artemide, ‘Shogun’ table lamp, Italy 1986
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1960s Italian Vintage Mario Botta Furniture

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Metal

Shogun Floor Lamp by Mario Botta for Artemide - 1980s
By Mario Botta
Located in Uccle, Bruxelles
Magnificent "Shogun" floor lamp designed in the 1980s by Mario Botta for the famous Artemide design house. This superb lamp is no longer produced today, unlike the smaller model, wh...
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1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Mario Botta Furniture

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Metal

Limited Edition Shogun Wall Lamps by Mario Botta for Artemide, 1980s
By Artemide, Mario Botta
Located in Renens, CH
Vintage Artemide Wall Lamps, model Shogun – a design by the architect Mario Botta (1986). The silver edition of these sconces are collectors items', they were only produced in a ver...
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1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mario Botta Furniture

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Aluminum

Black White Metal Geometric Vintage Floor Lamp Shogun Mario Botta Italy 1980s
By Mario Botta
Located in Vienna, AT
Modern black and white vintage floor lamp from lacquered metal designed by Mario Botta and executed by Artemide Italy (labeled). The Floor Lamp consists of white and black enameled tubular steel and enameled aluminum. The condition is very good. The floor lamp features a foot switch and one socket Edison 27 while both perforated lamp shades are adjustable. One of the famed product designs by Mario Botta is the Shogun lamp...
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1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Mario Botta Furniture

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Aluminum, Steel

Artemdie Shogun floorlamp by Mario Botta 1986
By Artemide, Mario Botta
Located in Münster, DE
Extremely rare floor lamp by the iconic Italian designer Mario Botta for Artemide. This model is nowadays is only produced as a table lamp and is therefore rarely found. The design i...
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1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Mario Botta Furniture

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Metal, Aluminum

Mario Botta Set of Six 605 Quinta Chairs in Black Lacquered Steel by Alias 1980
By Mario Botta, Alias
Located in Montecatini Terme, IT
Set of six 605 Quinta chairs with a black steel rod frame seat and back in bent perforated sheet metal. Designed by Mario Botta for Alias in 1985 (This chair is no longer in production). The Quinta chair it's an architecture you can sit on, this design clearly shows the inspiration of iconic designer as Le Corbusier, Louis Kahn, and Carlo Scarpa, an exemplary of this iconic chair is also exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art. Mario Botta was born in 1943 in Mendrisio. After working as an apprentice draughtsman for the Lugano-based architect Tita Carloni, he moved first to Milan and then to Venice, where he enrolled at the department of Architecture at the IUAV. He completed his degree in 1969 with a thesis tutored by Carlo Scarpa – after having met Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, who were later to be sources of inspiration – and returned to Switzerland to open his own professional firm, which at the time dealt mainly with detached family private homes. These included the villas in Riva San Vitale (1971-1973), Ligornetto (1975-1976) and Morbio Superiore (1982-1983), in which Botta treated the theme of the home as a refuge, which protects and reassures its inhabitants. These were buildings with a character that was ironic and, in a certain sense, monumental, obtained for example (in the case of Morbio) through rigorous symmetrical compositions and a particular use of raw concrete blocks set in a linear pattern and alternated with strips of silvered brick which, on the contrary, were set at 45 degrees. Partially dug into the hillside, the villa was also characterised by a theme which was particularly dear to Botta and which had already been explored in Riva San Vitale; the net distinction between solids and voids, the latter appearing to have been dug out of the building. Between 1980 and 1990, Botta associated with artists and intellectuals from all walks of life and took numerous long trips abroad. Together with Gabriele Basilico and Edoardo Sanguinetti, he published “La Casa Rotonda”, and he became friends with Max Huber, Nicki de Saint Phalle, Dante Isella, Harld Szeemann, Robert Frank and Alberto Flammer. In 1986, the MoMA in New York dedicated a solo exhibition to his work, and the Swiss architect received his first contracts for public buildings and from abroad, debuting with the Cultural Centre in Chambéry (1984-1987). In Japan, on a challenging triangular lot of only one hundred and sixty square metres, a space which remained from the opening of a new highway, Botta built a small building which, with its clarity and strength of image, attempted to stand out in the midst of the chaos that surrounded it, thanks to a thick masonry curtain raised on the main façade, in which slabs of grey marble are crossed with horizontal fissures which erode the angles and cancel the perception of the number of floors which make up the museum. The church of Mongo, on the other hand, was the first step in a long series of places of worship, including designs for the churches of Pordenone (1987-1992) and Sartiana (1987-1995), for the cathedral of Evry (1988-1995), for the basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli on Mont Tamaro (1990-1996, for the Giovanni XXII church in Seriate (1994-2000) and for the Cymbalista synagogue in Tel Aviv (1996-1998). In each of these, light plays a predominant role as a prime generator of space and a measure for the definition of time that passes with the various phases of the day, the months and the seasons. Light is, however, the main symbolic element, representing through its variations the uneasiness of humankind in the face of divine perfection. In this same period, the scheduling for the construction of a new School of Architecture, the Mendrisio Academy, took place. Inaugurated in 1996, it offered an alternative approach to teaching in contrast to the Swiss University system, in which an important role is played by humanistic subjects and by a copious group of well-known international professors: from Rykwert to Benevolo, Burkhart, Campos Baeza, Dal Co, Frampton, Mendes da Rocha...
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1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Mario Botta Furniture

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Steel, Sheet Metal

Mario Botta furniture for sale on 1stDibs.

Mario Botta 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 Mario Botta furniture, although black editions of this piece are particularly popular. We have 85 vintage editions of these items in-stock, while there is 6 modern edition to choose from as well. Many of the original furniture by Mario Botta were created in the mid-century modern style in europe during the 20th century. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider furniture by Pallucco, Cattelan Italia, and Rodney Kinsman. Prices for Mario Botta furniture can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $900 and can go as high as $19,400, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $3,633.
Questions About Mario Botta Furniture
  • 1stDibs ExpertJanuary 10, 2025
    Mario Botta is famous for his work as an architect and designer. He is renowned for his impressive postmodern architecture projects, such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. However, the chairs, lighting and other furniture he created reflect a mastery of geometrically rich forms and an elegant application of simple symmetry. Botta’s noteworthy architectural projects designed during the 1990s and 2000s include the Cymbalista Synagogue and Jewish Heritage Center in Tel Aviv, Israel; the Monastery of the Holy Apostles Saint Peter and Andrew in Lviv, Ukraine; and the Theater of Architecture in Mendrisio, Switzerland. On 1stDibs, explore a range of Mario Botta furniture.

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