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Designed by Charles Pollock
In 1982, the designer Charles Pollock created a real design classic: Penelope. The American designer developed for Castelli a revolutionary chair from a technical and formal point of view: a steel-wire sled base supports a seat permeable to air which consists in a steel-wire fence coated with synthetic resin. The elastic effect of the base is stressed by an integral polyurethane tube that acts as a shock-absorber. The armrest coverings are made of the same material providing additional comfort. With Penelope, Pollock translated into reality a new form of seat. That’s why this timeless classic still enjoys fame in today’s design world.
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Basic chair with essential design, the rod forms the profiles and volumes with graceful symmetry between empty and filled spaces.
The Genoa seating collection , designed by the young Cesare Ehr , expands with the stool and chair versions with armrests, also in the outdoor variant . The characterizing element is the ‘one line’ backrest, obtained by the curvature of a single metal tube which – with its virtually infinite sinuous line, extended in this […]
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