Midcentury Italian Armchairs in the Style of Ico Parisi

Practicing both industrial design and architecture, focusing mostly on interiors, Gianfranco Frattini is one of the members of the generation that created the Italian design movement...

As one of the first Italian designers to go beyond aesthetic issues to incorporate technological, industrial, and communication variables into his art, Marco Zanuso introduced the co...

Practicing both industrial design and architecture, focusing mostly on interiors, Gianfranco Frattini is one of the members of the generation that created the Italian design movement...

As one of the first Italian designers to go beyond aesthetic issues to incorporate technological, industrial, and communication variables into his art, Marco Zanuso introduced the co...

Beautiful Mid century Italian Chair upholstered velvet fabric with leather welt and walnut legs. Dimensions: 33" W x 37" D x 30.5" H

Rare pair of armchairs designed by Carlo Hauner and Martin Eisler. In the designers’ iconic style, these chairs feature an iron frame with splayed legs kept in their original condition. Upholstered in an elegant light-grey textile composed of linen and cotton. Martin Eisler (1913-1977) and Carlo Hauner (1927-1997) were the primary designers for the iconic Brazilian furniture...

This armchair was in Italy in 1951 designed by Ico Parisi and manufactured by Ariberto Colombo. The massive chair had been re-upholstered in their past w...

Set of three armchairs worked wood frame covered with original velvet of the time attributable to Ico Parisi late 1950s. Additional measureme...

Pair of midcentury lounge chairs reminiscent of the works of Ico Parisi with an oversize round back and long brass legs. Recovered in a dark blue velvet. Price listed is for the pair...

The style is very reminiscent of Ico Parisi, an Italian designer of the mid-twentieth century.

A rare pair of two Italian midcentury collectible armchairs or lounge chairs designed by Ico and Luisa Parisi for Ariberto Colombo at the beginning of the 1950s. The angular shape of...

Set of four armchairs in white fiberglass Kubilia series of Ico Parisi for M.I.M. Rome, Italy. Ico Parisi was born in Palermo in 1916. He gained a diploma in construction and served his apprenticeship in Giuseppe Terragni's studio. In 1937 he carried out, for the magazine Quadrante, a photographic study of the Casa del Fascio that marked the entire research that Parisi conducted in "meditating on the legacies and contradictions of the enormous baggage of ideas and forms constituted by the experience of the masters". His activity, marked by continuous experimentation, is an incessant quest in the fields of architecture, art and design. Between 1948 and 1950 he devoted himself to the study of furniture elements. In the field of design, crucial encounters with Munari and Fontana (1951) and Melotti profoundly marked his experience. In 1948 he founded the studio La ruota with his wife Luisa Aiani, a designer and designer, which ceased its activity in 1995. In 1954 he was awarded the Gold Medal at the X Milan Triennale with the work Padiglione Soggiorno, with Silvio Longhi and Luigi Antonietti. In 1957 he presented at the exhibition Colori e forme della casa d'oggi the work Casa per vacanze, which was the result of a collaboration with Manlio Rho...