Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Spanish-born, Milan-based architect Patricia Urquiola doesn’t lack for commissions these days, and, unlike the work of many other high-concept architects, her projects tend to get constructed, envelope-pushing though they sometimes are. And when she’s not imagining covetable creations for contemporary furniture houses — including B&B Italia, Driade and Cassina, where she was named art director in 2015 — Urquiola makes headlines by designing some of the world’s most aesthetically ambitious hotels, such as 2016’s Il Sereno on Lake Como in Lombardy, Italy.
Born in Oviedo, in northern Spain, Urquiola grew up in a family that valued creativity. Everyone in the house, she says, talked and cared about design. She fondly remembers her mother going to London in the 1960s and ’70s and coming back home with a Mary Quant this, a David Hicks that. When it came time to go to university, Urquiola decided that her place was architecture school, first at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and then at the Polytechnic University of Milan, where she completed her design thesis — a felt carpet with a panel that connected to a home’s electricity source and telephone line so that you could plug, say, a table lamp and your phone into it — under the direction of legendary Italian industrial designer Achille Castiglioni.
Today, Urquiola has become a go-to when it comes to avant-garde product, hospitality and retail design, working with such blue-chip international furniture, fashion and hotel companies as Alessi, Baccarat, Salvatore Ferragamo, Kvadrat, Mandarin Oriental, Panerai, Rosenthal, W Hotels and Louis Vuitton, among many others. Her residential projects, meanwhile, though few and far between, stretch from such far-flung locations as Punta del Este, Uruguay, and Melbourne, Australia, to closer-to-home Udine, in northeastern Italy, where she designed the two-story, largely open-plan glass-and-cedar home of Patrizia Moroso, creative director of the family-owned design company that bears her last name.
Over the course of a long-term and highly productive collaboration spanning some 20 years, Urquiola has created dozens and dozens of Moroso-branded products. A chair from her 2001 Fjord line of seating, tables and poufs for the company sits in the collection of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, and Moroso debuted (love me) Tender, her modular sofa system upholstered in jersey, during Milan’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile in April of 2014.
Find Patricia Urquiola furniture on 1stDibs.
2010s Italian Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Fabric
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Leather, Foam, Wood
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Leather, Foam, Wood
Early 2000s Italian Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Fabric, Cotton, Linen, Upholstery
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Steel
Early 2000s Italian Post-Modern Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Leather
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Fabric
Early 2000s Italian Modern Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Linen
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Fabric
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Leather, Foam, Wood
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Fabric, Foam, Wood
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Leather, Foam, Wood
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Fabric, Foam, Wood
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Fabric, Foam, Wood
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Leather, Foam, Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Fabric
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Leather, Foam, Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Fabric, Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Velvet
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Fabric, Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Bentwood
2010s French Modern Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Leather, Beech
Early 2000s American Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Fabric
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Minimalist Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Suede
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Polyester
2010s American Modern Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Fabric, Polyester, Plywood
Early 2000s Italian Modern Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Fabric
2010s Spanish Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Foam
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Bentwood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Plastic
2010s French Modern Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Fabric, Foam, Wood, Ash, Beech
Early 2000s Italian Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary European Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Plastic
2010s Italian Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Fabric
2010s Italian Modern Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Aluminum
Early 2000s Italian Scandinavian Modern Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Organic Modern Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Fabric
Early 2000s Italian Modern Patricia Urquiola Armchairs
Leather