Monday 1 August 2016

Plia Chair by Giancarlo Piretti, 1969

  • Designed By - Giancarlo Piretti
  • When - 1969
  • Made From - Chromed steel, cast aluminium and ABS plastic
  • Manufactured By - Castelli
  • More Info - A space saving design, it folds flat and becomes only an inch thick. The thin metal frame and transparent seat and back make it look very light. It is suitable for indoor and outdoor use. Over four million have been sold and it is on permanent display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It won the BIO 5 award at the Lyublyana Biennial and the Gute Form prize of the Federal Republik of Germany in 1973. The plastic seat and back is available in transparent and colours and you can also buy seat pads for it which come in many different colours.

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