Carlo Ratti Set of 6 Chairs Wood Plywood and Faux Leather, Italian Design 1950s

This set of 6 chairs has a simple form that recalls the classic lines of mid-century Nordic design, using wood, plywood and fabric, with brass details. An original and simple set tha...

Extremely comfortable, these armchairs embodies the elegance and glamour of a true 1950s furniture. The semi circular armrest that envelop the seat provide support and relax with any...

Splendid set of 6 Guglielmo Ulrich chairs with wooden structure and skai coverings made in Italy 195o ca.Italian architect, painter and furniture designer, Guglielmo Ulrich, descende...

Tomaso Buzzi was the real designer for the Italian and Milanese upper middle class in the post-World War II period. His creations, as in this case, were often commissioned creations, designed for a specific family and on the occasion of an overall furnishing project, to be followed from A to Z. This set of eight chairs together with a fine dining table was designed for an apartment on Via Conservatorio, deep in the heart of bourgeois Milan, near Villa Necchi...

This delicate bench with a suspended seat on leather or fabric strips and a thick fabric cushion is accompanied by a section that functions as a tabletop. The overall structure is wo...

Elegant and discreet sideboard that combines some of the typical design elements of Paolo Buffa, a great protagonist of the design of the first half of the 20th century: thus, one no...

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

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...

Six chairs in curved teak plywood, legs in reinforcing steel. Good conditions.

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

This set of six Italian dining chairs was designed by Carlo Ratti in the 1950s. The seat shell is made of several bentwood elements with straight breaking edges in the area of the a...

Two beautiful original Carlo Ratti chairs, manufactured by his company Industria Legni Curvati, based in Lissone, Milan.