Pair of vintage '133 lco chairs

The Ico design chair is a tribute by designer Ora ïto to the history of Cassina, especially to the 814 chair designed by architect Ico Parisi in 1950. Versatile and dynamic, its silhouette is immediately recognizable. The frame of the chair is made of lacquered solid ash wood, The backrests also in wood and the seating is in leather. All high quality materials and every chair in one single color. Ora Ito is a phenomenon in pop culture, he is the youngest designer of his generation to collaborate with various brands of the luxury sector. The multidisciplinary, transversal Ora ïto studio has since gone from telephone to architecture, from furniture to the hotel industry, from perfume to tramways and from flying saucers to restaurants, manipulating symbols to simplify them. A tenacious methodology for which he has invented a neologism: ‘simplexity,’ decoding today’s DNA to conceptualise future mutations. His fluid vocabulary materialises movement reinventing streamlining in the digital era and giving shape to the desires of our contemporary society. In 2013, he created MAMO, an art centre on the roof terrace of the mythical Cité Radieuse designed by Le Corbusier in Marseille. This set of two chairs are in very good condition consistent with age and use. Reference : 264602