Sacco Chair (1968) by Piero Gatti, Cesare Paolini and Franco Teodoro for Zanotta“In the 1960s, people wanted to find new ways of socializing.
I still remember sitting on my first beanbag chair and thinking it was a massive leap of imagination coupled with a new material (polystyrene balls), which is always what pushes design forward.”Image Credit... © 2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris.
Photo: © Christie’s Images Limited 2023Hippopotame II Bar (1978) by François-Xavier Lalanne“Many designers are doing art-furniture today, but the Lalannes were doing it much earlier.
It’s playful and Surrealist and yet beautifully crafted — in brass, a metal I’m obsessed with.”Image Credit... Farrar, Straus & Giroux“The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” (1968) by Tom Wolfe“I took a couple of acid tabs when I was a kid, and it was super mind-expanding.
Wolfe’s writing is, too.”
Persons:
Sacco, Piero Gatti, Cesare Paolini, Franco Teodoro, Zanotta “, Xavier Lalanne “, . Farrar, Straus, Giroux, Tom Wolfe “, ”
Organizations:
Rights Society, François
Locations:
New York, ADAGP, Paris