721 Antropus
Antropus was created at the end
of the 1940s when Marco Zanuso was commissioned to design the sets for the
Italian-language version of Thornton Wilder’s play The Skin of Our Teeth, which
was dubbed “La Famiglia Antropus” in Italian, and was performed at the Piccolo
Teatro in Milan. The architect worked with Arflex to produce an armchair fully
upholstered in foam rubber; at the time, this material was considered highly
innovative and was being promoted for use in domestic furniture-making for its
expressive, and industrial ergonomic potential. The present-day version of
this chair features polyurethane foam CFC free. This lends itself to creating a
oversized and comfortable seat and back-rest that fit snugly into the slender,
curving profile of the side panels. Cassina is making this model available in
the original iconic red fabric upholstery.
About Designer | |
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Marco Zanuso |
Architect, designer and
university lecturer, Marco Zanuso (1916-2001) was one of the leading
interpreters of the Modern Movement. Trained at the Polytechnic University of
Milan and, in the immediate post-war years, co-editor of the Domus magazine
with Ernesto N. Rogers, he was awarded the Medaglia d'oro and the Gran Premio
at the Milan Triennale on a number of occasions (VIII, IX, X, XI and XIII
editions), and won five Compassi d’Oro between 1956 and 1985.Zanuso was one of
the first designers in Italy to take an interest in the problems of product
industrialisation, going beyond aesthetic issues to incorporate technological,
industrial, distribution and communication variables.According to Zanuso, the
form of an object destined for serial reproduction is an amalgam of
opportunities, experimentation and innovation in the concrete process that
connects creativity, production and the social and cultural context.“Through my
projects I want to give form to what I call complexity”, Marco Zanuso. |