Lady
Category
Armchairs
Brands
Designers
Dimensions
L 77 cm - P 84 cm - H 46/78 cm
Finiture
Chrome, Coating on request
Year
1951
The Lady Chair, designed by Marco Zanuso in 1951 for Arflex, is an icon of Italian design of the 1950s. Revolutionary for its time, it introduced the use of innovative materials such as polyurethane foam and elastic straps for padding, offering unprecedented comfort. Its structure features sinuous and enveloping lines, with a wide seat and curved armrests, supported by elegant metal legs. In 1951, the Lady Chair won the Gold Medal at the IX Triennale di Milano, consolidating its status as a symbol of stylistic and technological innovation.
Cassina
Cassina was founded in 1927 in Meda (Milan) by Cesare and Umberto Cassina, inaugurating industrial design in Italy in the 1950s. The brand's identity is found in an original union where technological aptitude is closely linked to traditional craftsmanship. Cassina maintains its ancient heart, the carpentry, the linchpin of all its workmanship. It is characterised by a transversal culture of absolute quality, which makes each Cassina piece unique.
Marco Zanuso
Marco Zanuso was an Italian architect, designer and urban planner. Born in Milan in 1916, he is considered one of the founding fathers of Italian industrial design and part of the Modern Movement in architecture: he was one of the first to be interested in the problems of product industrialization and the application of new materials and technologies to commonly used objects. He studied at the Polytechnic University of Milan, opened his own studio in 1945 and was editor of the architecture magazine Casabella from 1952 to 1956. In the same year he was one of the founders of the ADI (Association for Industrial Design). From 1948 he worked for Arflex, designing padded seats, while in 1957 he became a collaborator of the designer Richard Sapper, with whom, as well as furniture, he also created a series of radios and televisions. He died in Milan in 2001.
