Elegant and functional, the
Hola chair is one of Cassina’s all-time best-selling pieces. Conceived to offer
comfort to the max, both in domestic environments and for contract use, Hola’s
delightful curves, crafted from one single mould, conjure a ..
“This was a new kind of chair,
constructed totally out of leather, much cloned since then.” Thus Mario Bellini
describes Cab, a best-seller that he designed in the 1970s, which is now a
signature piece in Cassina’s I Contemporanei collection. Cab ..
“This was a new kind of chair,
constructed totally out of leather, much cloned since then.” Thus Mario Bellini
describes Cab, a best-seller that he designed in the 1970s, which is now a
signature piece in Cassina’s I Contemporanei collection. Cab ..
The Göteborg chair is Erik
Gunnar Asplund’s poetic interpretation of Rationalist ideas. The chair was
commissioned for the extension of the Town Hall in Göteborg, Sweden, whose
warm, wood-panelled rooms are evoked in its ashwood frame. The c..
With the Ombra Tokyo chair,
Charlotte Perriand came up with an iconic piece with great visual appeal and
exquisite refinement, conjured from a single sheet of oak plywood, cut, folded
and curved to evoke the Japanese origami tradition. This chair ..
This swivel armchair is a
re-working of the LC7, whose frame was in tubular metal, and was the work of
Charlotte Perriand in 1927. It was later exhibited along with other furniture
that Perriand co-designed with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret f..
The furniture-making skills known as MedaMade, a
trade mark patented by Cassina, is made manifest in a new chair that, leaving
classical stereotypes behind, sparks off powerful new idioms. The frame, in
solid ashwood, consists of basic big, bold l..
The rigorous design of this
chair is a perfect exemplar of Frank Lloyd Wright’s design ethos. This can be
seen in the tall backs and the strong uprights, the use of wood, typical of the
furniture he designed for his prairie houses. This chair was ..
An extremely functional dining
chair, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1907 for the Avery Coonley House, one
of the finest examples of his prairie style home. Wright uses his signature
uprights for this accomplished combination of shape and mater..
An icon of design and what has
been dubbed MedaMade crafts mastery, the Leggera -- its lines clean-cut
refined, and versatile -- adapts effortlessly to a variety of requirements and
settings. A wood chair, par excellence, the Leggera marks one of ..
An armchair, a dining chair and a sofa, of a
simple style, familiar and authentic, created thanks to the extraordinary
crafts skills proprietary to Cassina. The initial design, Le Tentazioni, dates
from 1973, the objective being to find an alterna..
A highlight of Cassina’s
catalogue since 1957, the Superleggera represents the perfect outcome between
the creative imagination of the architect Gio Ponti, and Cassina’s
manufacturing excellence, an undisputed icon that is both of-the-moment and
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