Soriana
- Description
- Designer Bio
AN INVITING INNOVATION
A design armchair with soft, generous contours,
designed to bring home casual, sophisticated comfort that opens the door to
new, freer lifestyles.
The idea for this armchair that changed the face of
upholstered furniture belongs to Afra and Tobia Scarpa, who designed it in
1969, starting with the new possibilities offered by the forming of
polyurethane foam to create an unconventional look of leisure.
With a vise-like grip, the metal structure holds the armchair, with its
biodegradable internal padding that, for the first time ever, needs no internal
support, intensifying the comfort level of this upholstered chair in the most
freeing sense of the word.
| About Designer | |
|---|---|
Tobia Scarpa |
Architect and designer Tobia Scarpa graduated in 1969 at
the University of Venice and in the same year won a “Compasso d’Oro” prize for
his “Soriana” armchair designed for Cassina. He has since been awarded many
other design prizes and many of his designs can also be found on show in some
of the world’s key museums, including his ‘Libertà’ chair on show at the
Louvre.As an architect he has worked for both public and private clients
including the Benetton Group for whom he famously designed the industrial area
and production plants in Castrette di Villorba (Treviso). Even today, the
Benetton facilities are still held up as an example of aesthetic-functional
excellence, one of the world’s most exciting pieces of industrial architecture. |
