Zanotta
Sacco Armchair
Price starting from € 323,00*
*Price valid for the version Sacco Small in W.54 x D.54 x H.59 cm with upholstery in fabric Vip (cod. 278).
The Sacco armchair by Zanotta is one of the immortal icons of great contemporary design and over the years has become a true archetype, capable of giving life to countless imitations. It is a very peculiar "anatomical chair" which takes on a different shape from time to time depending on the position of the person sitting on it. Playful, colorful and comfortable, the Sacco armchair was designed in 1968 by the Turin studio made up of Piero Gatti, Cesare Paolini and Franco Teodoro and in 2020 it received a Compasso d'Oro for Lifetime Achievement as a testimony to its continuing influence. Her influences on pop culture are also numerous, among which it is impossible not to mention the famous sketch that sees her protagonist together with Paolo Villaggio's Fracchia.
Small Version W.54 x D.54 x H.59 cm
Available also in Medium version in W.68 x D.68 x H.63 and in classic version in W.80 x D.80 x H.68 cm
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Design and culture: from these two inspirations, Zanotta draws its identity. Browsing the Zanotta catalog is like entering a real design museum full of the key works of some of the biggest protagonists of the furnishings field. Founded in Nova Milanese by Aurelio Zanotta in the ‘50s, the company inextricably links its name to the avant-garde design season, from which innovative furnishings are born, often enriched by an ironic touch. To these timeless masterpieces, Zanotta flanks reissues of classics from the first half of the twentieth century and a contemporary collection inspired by great lightness and quality.Read more
Designed by
Gatti, Paolini & Teodoro
Piero Gatti (1940-2017), Cesare Paolini (1937-1983) and Franco Teodoro (1939-2005) are a trio of Italian architects and designers remembered mainly for having designed one of the most iconic and recognizable products in the entire history of international design, the famous Sacco armchair, designed in 1968 and produced by Zanotta starting in 1968. The three, all active in Turin during the 1960s, began collaborating together starting in 1965. Their first significant success it was a revolving storage unit produced by Abet Laminati, a company with which Franco Teodoro had collaborated for years, dealing with graphics and colours. This piece of furniture, called MIA '68, was co-signed with the architect Guido Drocco (who a few years later would be the author of another great icon of Radical Design, the well-known Cactus produced for Gufram) and was awarded at the M.I.A. Monza International Furnishings Exhibition in 1968. The production of their Sacco dates back to the following year, a resounding success which will enter the permanent collections of the most important design museums around the world such as the MoMA in New York and the Victoria & Albert in London, as well as being awarded in 2020 with a Compasso d'Oro for lifetime achievement which recognizes her lasting success. A classic example of a "one-hit wonder" in design, despite their subsequent collaborations with brands such as BBB Bonacina, Colli 2 and Rapini, their career never reached great splendor again and was definitively slowed down by the premature death of Cesare Paolini in 1983.
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