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Pair of Armchairs by Italian Architect Renzo Zavanella, c. 1950, in oak with brass details, original inventory labels to underside.
Born in Mantua in 1900, Renzo Zavanella (1900-1988) was a visionary Italian architect and designer whose new and dynamic forms were paired with a strict attention to detail and refined traditional craftsmanship. During his storied career, which began in the studio of Gio Ponti and Emilio Lancia, his output would include ‘exhibition pavilions, incredibly innovative objects and means of transport, houses, offices, tombs (small masterpieces marrying abstract art and purist rationalism, in collaboration with Lucio Fontana)’. Little of his architecture survives today though his Villa dei Direttori (1931-1939) in Mantua, an essay in nautical rationalism, is now an iconic ruin. Among his many industrial commissions, his work for the Banca Popolare di Milano and Officine Meccaniche di Milano is perhaps the most significant. His designs for OM’s futuristic Belvedere railcar, with it’s radically formed ergonomic seating, were immensely significant and remain influential today. He was a close friend of Lucio Fontana, and in addition to the numerous tombs and funerary monuments, they would collaborate on a number on interiors together. Perhaps the most significant of these was the Hotel Lido Mediterraneo in San Remo (1949-50). Notably after the seeing the animated sculptural forms of the chairs Zavanella designed for the interior, Ponti asked whether they were executed in fabric or in plastic.
- Creator:Renzo Zavanella (Designer)
- Dimensions:Height: 47.25 in (120.02 cm)Width: 32 in (81.28 cm)Depth: 30 in (76.2 cm)
- Sold As:Set of 2
- Style:Modern (Of the Period)
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- Date of Manufacture:circa 1940s
- Condition:Reupholstered. Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:Sag Harbor, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU968427935312
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