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Tonietta 2090 Chair - Zanotta
€1,119.25
VAT included
The Tonietta chair is a design by Enzo Mari, for Zanotta, it represents an eloquent example of the product born from a close and fruitful collaboration between the firm and the designer. The project began in 1981 and ended in 1985 after many engineering investigations carried out to explore the technology of aluminum die casting and that until now, had been little used in the manufacture of a domestic chair.
The Tonietta chair won the prestigious Compasso d'Oro award in 1987 with the following motivation from the jury: "This chair represents a great lesson in style and culture: it evokes an archetype, avoiding all the trite imitations of morphological elements."
Designer Enzo Mari was particularly hostile towards fashion, including chairs, overloaded with technological or typological arrogance of design: he wanted to design the simplest chair possible, almost obvious, not an object that looked different at any cost. After careful analysis I saw that among modern chairs, Thonet are the ones that best embody the idea of an archetypal image, so to define the character of my chair I decided to dialogue with this unique example of a high-class piece, full of semantics and symbolic values.
Polished or black-painted aluminum alloy structure.
Seat and backrest in polypropylene coated in 95 cowhide leather in the colours indicated in our colour chart.
Measurements: Height 82 x depth 48 x width 39 cm.
Data sheet
- Designer:
- Enzo Mari
- Year:
- 1985
- Country of origin:
- Italy
- Measurements in cm:
- Height 82 x Depth 48 x Width 39
- Suitable for outdoor use:
- No