Armchairs by Guiseppe Pagano and Gino Levi Montalcini

About the Item

These wonderful armchairs were designed by Guiseppe Pagano Pogatschnig and Gino Levi Montalcini. They are made of laminated wood, with the inner surfaces finished in aniline and the outer surfaces stained boxwood. The upholstery is covered in fabric. They were manufactured by F.I.P. Turin. The price is for the two armchairs.

Creator:
Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig (Designer),Gino Levi-Montalcini (Designer)
Dimensions:
Height: 28.75 in (73 cm)Width: 27.96 in (71 cm)Depth: 31.5 in (80 cm)Seat Height: 14.57 in (37 cm)
Sold As:
Set of 2
Style:
Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Boxwood,Fabric,Wood
Place of Origin:
Italy
Period:
1920-1929
Date of Manufacture:
ca. 1929
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use.
Seller Location:
Berlin, DE
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU983150290752

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Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig

An accomplished architect, exhibition designer, furniture maker and magazine editor, Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig helped direct Italy’s rationalist architectural movement until his death near the end of World War II. Wounded twice and captured twice in World War I, Pogatschnig left military service to work as the editor and director of Casabella architecture magazine and went on to design the V Milan Triennale and VI Milan Triennale alongside fellow Italian architect Gio Ponti.

Originally born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now modern-day Croatia, Pogatschnig studied Italian in Trieste before joining the Italian army to serve in the First World War. After that harrowing and traumatic experience, he became a founding member of the first Fascist Party in Parenzo. In 1924, he graduated from Turin Polytechnic with an architecture degree and began designing bridges, pavilions and buildings, including the Gualino office complex, in Turin. Nearing 1928, Pogatschnig began work on pavilions for the Turin International Exhibition.

Pogatschnig’s involvement in the V and VI Milan Triennales stand today as some of his greatest contributions to Italian architecture. He held full control over the design of the latter exhibition, in 1936, which led to the opportunity to design many of the interiors of the Italian Pavilion at the Paris Expo the following year.

Pogatschnig’s reputation as an architect and designer were overshadowed only by his outspoken nature as an editor. By 1942, he openly criticized the Italian regime and left the Fascist Party to join the resistance a year later. These activities led to his capture, imprisonment and escape from Brescia in 1944. Ultimately, Pogatschnig was recaptured, tortured and transferred across prisons to Austria’s Mauthausen concentration camp, where he died on April 22, 1945, less than a month before the end of fighting in Europe.

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