Carlo Ratti Dinner Chairs Italy, 1950

Highly elegant pair of armchairs designed by Carlo Ratti and manufactured by Industria Legni Curvati, Italy 1950s. These visually appealing armchairs have a very nice and extraordina...

Beautiful pair of wall mounted display cabinets designed by Carlo Ratti and manufactured by Industria Legni Curvati in Italy in 1950. These cabine...

Striking set of 6 plywood dining chairs designed by Enzo Strada and manufactured by Mobili Barovero, Italy 1950. These chairs have a very nice and dyna...

Beautiful P31 chairs by Osvaldo Borsani and made in Italy by Tecno in 1957. The chairs are in fully original condition and have a wonderful patina, which only adds value to them. The...

Very nice minimalist dining chairs designed by Renato Venturi and manufactured by MIM (Mobili Italiani Moderni) Roma, Italy, 1961. The chairs have solid rosewood frames and are newly...

Highly rare set of 6 dining chairs designed by Augusto Bozzi and manufactured by Saporiti, Italy 1954. These chairs have a black lacquered metal wire frame with brass feet. The chair...

Four original chairs in curved multilayer teak and beech wood, mid-century Italian design in the Carlo Ratti style.

Set of six chairs designed by Carlo Ratti. Black lacquered metallic structure, seat and back in teak wood.

Two beautiful original Carlo Ratti bentwood chairs, manufactured by his company Industria Legni Curvati, based in Lissone, Milan. New upholstered with a two-tone fabric.

Set of four dining chairs with a frame in black lacquered metal and seat in curved plywood, attributed to Carlo Ratti and produced by Società Compensati Curvati in the 1950s. In Italy, at the beginning of the XX century, industries of curved solid wood arose under license of Michael Thonet, and through the International Exhibitions the processing of curved wood became more and more widespread. The Expo of the first decade was also attended by the wood manufacturers of Monza, while in 1905 Otto Helzer, in Switzerland, patented wooden structures in curved laminated, whose strength was equivalent to those in steel. The Ratti brothers of Monza took their cue from the solid wood laminate to create furniture that, instead of wooden elements, used sheets of wood. The brothers Ratti, Carlo and Mario, also began to follow the young artistic avant-gardes (cubism, futurism and abstractionism). The mastery of wooden sculpture influenced Carlo in the design and realization of furniture of fine neo-plastic artistic workmanship and decò, receiving honors from the Prince of Piedmont Umberto di Savoia. In 1919, in Milan, the first Lombard Exhibition of Decorative Arts was set up (later to become the Triennale) and the Ratti brothers exhibited their furniture in solid wood but also in curved panel with a new system of curvature, the one in Telo. The canvas system was developed by the Ratti brothers with the help of a friend, Cesare Cantù. They developed an elastomer bag in which the mould was inserted with the panel to be bent and, closing it with clamps, the air inside was removed, thus making the panel adhere to the mould. Carlo and Mario found in the Telo system a means by which they could make objects and furniture in the three spatial directions with large surface curvatures, without limits of thickness and minimum radii of curvature. In 1921 in Stuttgart the first Salone del Mobile was inaugurated and the Fratelli Ratti of Monza made itself known internationally by presenting solid wood furniture and also furniture in load-bearing plywood, flanked by furniture with framed and interchangeable covers. The Expo became meeting places to verify and present the novelties in the furniture and industrialization sector and, with the development of Industrial Design, the first architects joined in the design of the furniture industries. The Ratti Brothers, in the various international and national exhibitions, also presented incredible objects in their realization with the system in Telo. After 1930 Carlo and Mario produced many containers for radio and folding chairs for cinema but in 1939 they divided and in Monza Mario remained who, with his sons Antonio and Angela, formed the Società Compensati Curvi...

Four dining chairs designed in 1950s by Carlo Ratti and produced by Industria Legni Curvati, Italy. Plywood seat with black lacquered metal frame. Signed.

Set of four chairs designed by Carlo Ratti. Structure in black painted metal, seat and backrest in hot bent teak and brass screws.