Giovanni Offredi Style Pair of Tubular Steel Chairs, italy 1960s

Set of four stackable wooden chairs with squared legs and curved, sloping back.

Rare original 1960s low chair with curved bamboo high back, beautiful design and comfortable seating. Italian production 1960. Other designers of the period include Gio Ponti, Fontan...

Chairs in wood and boucle fabric by Renato Venturi who designed these extraordinary chairs for MIM Rome in 1960s Italy. These fantastic chairs have a solid wood frame and beautifully...

the Pampelona chair designed by Augusto Savini in the 1960s is a model prized for its massive wooden frame that forms two arches on the back feet and joints with steel pieces. It is ...

Very nice set of 4 ‘Sail’ chairs designed by Giovanni Offredi and manufactured by Saporiti, Italy 1973. These comfortable chairs are just restored with ...

Marvellous midcentury lounge chair with tubular steel frames and white leather seat. The "Lens" model was designed by Giovanni Offredi and produced for Saporiti in 1968. This chair has a white leather seat with original upholstery and a fantastic tubular structure, available as it is or can be restored. A wonderful space-age design piece, fused with sumptuous and elegant materials. A magnificent and iconic piece that will be perfect for a midcentury-style living room or study and a must-have for vintage leather seats lovers. The condition of the chair has some normal signs of use and vintage condition, as shown in the photos. Giovanni Offredi (born 1927, Milan–died 2007, Milan) was a prominent Italian furniture and product designer of the second half of the 20th century. As opposed to most of the other Italian furniture designers of his time, Giovanni Offredi was not an architect, nor did he start designing early in his professional career. Instead, Offredi partially fits the career path of some of the talented contemporary designers who pursue product design outside of formal education in architecture. The earliest furniture design work known by Giovanni Offredi consists of exemplary furnishings made specifically for some of the wealthy families in Milan. Such is the case of the works done by Offredi for Casa C., in 1960, in Gorgonzola, a small town 14 miles from Milan. These works were designed with a surprisingly minimal simplicity and elegance, and they also clearly display a hallmark of his design work with the use of angular lines and exposed metal or wood frames—not unlike some of the modern Scandinavian design of the time. In the late 1960s, Giovanni Offredi met Sergio Saporiti, the owner of Italian design shop and furniture maker Saporiti, and in 1970, Offredi formalized a partnership with the furniture maker. This partnership would be long and successful and resulted in many furniture designs of distinct precision that were clearly modern and innovative and that went on to enjoy considerable commercial success. The most prominent furniture designs that Offredi made for Saporiti include the Paracarro table...

A set of 4 Saporiti Sled Chairs Original Upholstery

c. 1960s. Price is for the set. Contact us if you’d like to purchase a single item. Original cognac suede with metal base trim. Made in Italy by Saporiti