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Vintage Kartell Chair Model 4870, designed by Anna Castelli Ferrieri for Kartell in the mid 80s.
This beautiful model was awarded with the Compasso DOro 1987 award. The design of this chair blends a rigorous form with a hint of joyful engagement. It is as functional as easy going and enjoyable. This chair like the 4875 model from Carlo Bartoli is a brilliant example of Italian design applied to everyday objects. Thanks to the solidity of materials this chair is suitable also for outdoor use.
The construction is single body, high quality plastic a Kartell signature. The white hue finish provide a perfect match for any style of interiors.
The model 4870 will be also a perfect complement for a studio or office, with its minimalistic flair and excellent functionality.
item. chair
model. 4870
designer. Anna Castelli Ferrieri
maker. Kartell
period. 80s
country. Italy
material. plastic
color. white
dimensions (cm). 45 x 46 x 76. seat height 45 cm
condition. very good vintage conditions healthy and clean minor superficial marks.Creator: Kartell (Manufacturer),Anna Castelli Ferrieri (Designer)Dimensions: Height: 29.93 in (76 cm)Width: 17.72 in (45 cm)Depth: 18.12 in (46 cm)Seat Height: 17.72 in (45 cm)Style: Industrial (Of the Period)Materials and Techniques: PlasticPlace of Origin: ItalyPeriod: 1980-1989Date of Manufacture: 1980sCondition: GoodWear consistent with age and use.Seller Location: San Benedetto Del Tronto, ITReference Number: Seller: 15241stDibs: LU9414240886962Shop All Kartell
Kartell
The Italian design giant Kartell transformed plastic from the stuff of humble household goods into a staple of luxury design in the 1960s. Founded in Milan by Italian chemical engineer Giulio Castelli (19202006) and his wife Anna Ferrieri (19182006), Kartell began as an industrial design firm, producing useful items like ski racks for automobiles and laboratory equipment designed to replace breakable glass with sturdy plastic. Even as companies like Olivetti and Vespa were making Italian design popular in the 1950s, typewriters and scooters were relatively costly, and Castelli and Ferrieri wanted to provide Italian consumers with affordable, stylish goods.
They launched a housewares division of Kartell in 1953, making lighting fixtures and kitchen tools and accessories from colorful molded plastic. Consumers in the postwar era were initially skeptical of plastic goods, but their affordability and infinite range of styles and hues eventually won devotees. Tupperware parties in the United States made plastic storage containers ubiquitous in postwar homes, and Kartells ingenious designs for juicers, dustpans, and dish racks conquered Europe. Kartell designer Gino Colombini was responsible for many of these early products, and his design for the KS 1146 Bucket won the Compasso dOro prize in 1955.
Buoyed by its success in the home goods market, Kartell introduced its Habitat division in 1963. Designers Marco Zanuso and Richard Sapper created the K1340 (later called the K 4999) childrens chair that year, and families enjoyed their bright colors and light weight, which made them easy for kids to pick up and move. In 1965, Joe Colombo (192478) created one of Kartells few pieces of non-plastic furniture, the 4801 chair, which sits low to the ground and comprised of just three curved pieces of plywood. (In 2012, Kartell reissued the chair in plastic.) Colombo followed up on the success of the 4801 with the iconic 4867 Universal Chair in 1967, which, like Verner Pantons S chair, is made from a single piece of plastic. The colorful, stackable injection-molded chair was an instant classic. That same year, Kartell introduced Colombos KD27 table lamp. Ferriereis cylindrical 4966 Componibili storage module debuted in 1969.
Kartell achieved international recognition for its innovative work in 1972, when a landmark exhibition curated by Emilio Ambasz called Italy: The New Domestic Landscape opened at New Yorks Museum of Modern Art. That show introduced American audiences to the work of designers such as Gaetano Pesce; Ettore Sottsass, founder of the Memphis Group; and the firms Archizoom and Superstudio (both firms were among Italy’s Radical design groups) all of whom were using wit, humor and unorthodox materials to create a bracingly original interior aesthetic.
Castelli and Ferrieri sold Kartell to Claudio Luti, their son-in-law, in 1988, and since then, Luti has expanded the companys roster of designers.
Kartell produced Ron Arads Bookworm wall shelf in 1994, and Philippe Starcks La Marie chair in 1998. More recently, Kartell has collaborated with the Japanese collective Nendo, Spanish architect Patricia Urquiola and glass designer Tokujin Yoshioka, among many others. Kartell classics can be found in museums around the world, including MoMA, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. In 1999, Claudio Luti established the Museo Kartell to tell the companys story, through key objects from its innovative and colorful history.
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