Poltrona Frau
Vanity Fair Armchair
Classic
Price starting from € 4.551,00*
*Price valid for the classic version with upholstery in fabric cat. B –supports in dark walnut stained beechwood (cod. 5163111).
Known since 1930, this armchair originally baptized "model 904" took the name of Vanity Fair only in 1984, becoming in effect the emblem of the company. The project stems from the drawings of Renzo Frau and his wife Savina who studied the strongly volumetric composition that in the collective imagination defines the armchair par excellence, an example of comfort and aesthetics summarized in a single solution. Over time, Poltrona Frau has created several versions of the same model including the baby and many ad hoc creations with artfully crafted materials. The preciousness of the Pelle Frau® leather upholstery is enriched here by a row of leather-covered nails on the back and sides.
W.94 x D.91 x H.99 cm
Seat Height 48 cm
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Poltrona Frau brings in any kind of environment, from home to office, its characteristic taste for leather-covered furnishings. The company grew out from the intuition of Renzo Frau who, moving in Torino, founded his workshop in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The Piedmont city was the ideal stage for the proposals of the young entrepreneur.
From the beginning, Poltrona Frau furnishings attract the attentions of the bourgeoisie and the Savoy Aristocracy, strongly fascinated by the international taste. The company’s collections embodied the timeless beauty of the Made in Italy design, despite a remarkable stylistic inflection in the Edoardian taste. In those years came to life iconic products such as the historic model 904, better known as Vanity Fair, the Chester armchair, which recalls the Chesterfield style, and the model 1919.Read more
Designed by
Renzo Frau
Renzo Frau (1881-1926) was the founder of Poltrona Frau. Born in Cagliari, he worked as an apprentice upholsterer since he was a boy and moved to Turin after his military service. In the Savoy capital he began a business as a sales representative which also led him to work in the leather sector and to make several trips to England, where he discovered the classic Chesterfield model armchairs with their somewhat essential comfort, so different were they from the opulent period furnishings French which were then fashionable in Turin. He therefore decided first to become an importer and then to start his own production line, which merged English influences with Central European ones in the style. Thus Poltrona Frau was born in 1912, whose upholstered furniture soon became a must for the rich Piedmontese industrial bourgeoisie, an icon also loved by artists and writers. That was the Turin of the nascent automotive industry, the Turin where Fiat, Lancia and dozens of other small workshops took their first steps, bringing wealth and development: Frau upholstered furniture became one of the symbols of that fruitful and optimistic era, interrupted but not erased from the sad parenthesis of the First World War in which Renzo was also called to the front. New impetus to business was born in the post-war period from the collaboration with the Palermo company Ducrot which involved Frau in the supply of furnishings for large ocean liners, theatres, hotels and restaurants. After Renzo's premature death, the leadership of the company passed to his wife Savina Pisati, triggering a series of events that led in the early 1960s to the transfer of the ownership and headquarters of the brand to Tolentino in the Marche region, home to a tannery that represented one of the brand's major suppliers.
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