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Vico Magistretti 'Carimate' dining chairs produced by Mario Luigi Comi 1960s

Set of 5 Carimate chairs by Vico Magistretti, Italy, 1960s

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Vico Magistretti 'Carimate' dining chairs produced by Mario Luigi Comi 1960s

Name: Vico Magistretti 'Carimate' dining chairs produced by Mario Luigi Comi 1960s
Brand: Vico Magistretti
Price: 20855.5 USD
Availability: InStock

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A beautiful set of 12 'Carimate' dining chairs by Vico Magistretti for Mario Luigi Comi/Italy in the 60s! The 'Carimate' chair is one of Vico Magistretti's most famous chair and for him, rather unsual, as his furniture is better known for the colourful variety of his plastic designs from the 70s. The chair is inspired by the tradition of countryside furniture. The timeless chair is a combination of italian craftsmanship and modern design. These chairs are produced in the 60s by Mario Luigi Comi and made of beech, dark stained with a seat of cane, simillar to the chair of Charlotte Periand in the 50s. The manufacturer produced the Carimate chair only from 1960-1969! Vico Magistretti was an Italian furniture and industrial designer and architect. For years, he represented Milanese rationalism and sought timeless solutions to technical and formal problems. Magistretti's designs stood for the cult of Italian design. He was the main representative of product design at the time and combined innovative ideas with rational practicality in his designs. His works were consistently function-oriented. He always used the latest techniques and thus produced timeless classics. Carimate Chair In 1959, Vico Magistretti designed the Carimate Chair for the Golf Club in Carimate, Lombardy. It soon became a popular piece of furniture for restaurants throughout Italy. The Carimate Chair was a successful combination of original materials such as wood. From 1962, the chair was produced by the manufacturer Cassina and a long collaboration with Magistretti began. Offer applies to 12 chairs!

Creator:

Vico Magistretti (Designer)

Dimensions:

Height: 29.93 in (76 cm)Width: 18.51 in (47 cm)Depth: 17.33 in (44 cm)Seat Height: 18.51 in (47 cm)

Sold As:

Set of 12

Materials and Techniques:

Beech,Cane

Place of Origin:

Italy

Period:

1960-1969

Date of Manufacture:

1960

Condition:

Seller Location:

Köln, DE

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU7587237576992

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Vico Magistretti

As one of the founding fathers of modern Italian design, prolific architect and industrial designer Ludovico Magistretti (known by his nickname Vico) was guided by his philosophy, “There is no excuse for bad design.” His architectural projects are widely revered, and an ingenious meld of form and function can be found in his stylish and deceptively simple table lamps, sofas, armchairs and other mid-century furnishings.

Born in Milan, Magistretti followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather (both architects) to study architecture at the Polytechnic University of Milan. At the outbreak of World War II, he fled to Switzerland, and it was there he met his role model and mentor, renowned humanist architect Ernesto Nathan Rogers. Magistretti was inspired by Rogers’s vision to revive postwar Italy, and they collaborated on several reconstruction projects. Among Magistretti’s first architectural designs is a “poetic” round church, which he created for the QT8, an experimental Milanese neighborhood.

When Magistretti returned to Milan in 1945, he worked at his father’s architectural firm. It wasn’t until the early 1950s that he expanded his talents into design while working with furniture artisans.

In the 1960s, Magistretti began his 30-year working relationship with famed entrepreneur Cesare Cassina of the Cassina furniture manufacturing company. In their design approach, the two men shared a vision of the relationship between modernity and tradition and enjoyed a close bond (Magistretti designed Cassina’s luxurious villa in 1965). However, their friendship was not without contention.

Legend has it that upon seeing the prototype for Magistretti’s Maralunga sofa, Cassina hated it so much that he punched it, breaking the back of the sofa, which crumpled into itself.

“Right, great, it looks perfect to me like that,” an unfazed Magistretti allegedly responded, and the Maralunga’s slumped, adjustable-height backrest was born. Incidentally, the Maralunga sofa won Italy’s Compasso d’Oro award as did his Eclisse lamp for Artemide and his Atollo lamp for Oluce.

Magistretti died in 2006, but his designs live on in galleries, museums and private residences and offices around the world.

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