Italian modern red plastic chairs 1050 by Marcello Siard for Longato, 1970s

Italian modern plastic red Chairs mod. Selene by Vico Magistretti for Artemide, 1960s Set of 4 iconic chairs mod. Selene in dark red-burgund...

Italian modern red fabric DSC chairs Giancarlo Piretti Anonima Castelli, 1970s Set of twenty-two stackable DSC chairs with rectangular seats and backrests with rounded corners, padde...

Italian modern red leather chairs Ed Archer by Philippe Starck for Driade, 1980s Pair of chairs mod. Ed Archer in red leather. The main structure is shaped to form the backrest, seat...

Italian mid-century modern Chair in red plastic and black metal, 1960s Chair with curved and shaped seat and backrest in bright red plastic. In the center of the seat there is a deco...

A set of two Selene stackable chairs in red resin reinforced with fiberglass, designed by Vico Magistretti in 1967 and produced by Artemide Milano in the 1970s. The Selene chair was designed in 1967 by Magistretti to be produced in a plastic material, as he affirmed: "The seat and the back are simple curved surfaces. For me, the legs represented the real image of the piece, with as small a volume as that of any common wooden chair. I solved it by exploiting the molding of a plastic material formed by a simple 3-millimeter-thick sheet with a simple but very resistant "S" cross-section which inter-related the object with ordinary chairs without however the elephant legs so untypical of chairs. It was fun working with the model maker on the wood model." When produced in series, "a unit comes out of the machine every five minutes": Selene is the fruit of a single compression molding process on a pre-impregnated sheet (Ottagono 15 / 1969). Magistretti solves the problem of leg resistance by adopting an "S-shaped" configuration that confers resistance to a sheet only 3 millimeters thick. The formal and structural solution had already been previously adopted for the Chimera lamp (a self-supporting methacrylate sheet) and in developing the legs of the Demetrio table...

This set of two red chairs with the model name "Lamda" was made by Marco Zanuso and Richard Sapper for Gavina in the 1960s. The pieces are made of stamp...

Space Age red vintage plastic chair model Selene designed by Vico Magistretti 1968 for Artemide Milano, Italy. The chair shows a very good vintag...

Vico Magistretti "Carimate" dining chair for Cassina, red lacquered wood and straw seat, Italy, 1960, set of 2 The "Carimate" chair is one of Vico Magistretti’s most famous chairs. ...