Due Più by Nanda Vigo

Due Più by Nanda Vigo for Acerbis Design

Nanda Vigo’s seat known as Due Più armchair is an astonishing, enigmatic object where the use of two rollers that look like they’re floating makes for truly unique features. Futurist in aspect, we can see it as an emblematic design blending Vigo’s two souls: the esprit de géométrie that shines through the minimalist metallic structure with its light reflection, and an eccentric, pioneering spirit apparent in the use of Mongolian fur. Currently presented by Acerbis with a steel frame and furs reclaimed from food industry waste, according to circular economy principles that make it compatible with contemporary ethics.

We are proud to announce that the Due Più armchair by Nanda Vigo won the Archiproducts Design Awards 2023.

About Nanda Vigo

Nanda Vigo was born in Milan in 1936. She lives in Milan and East Africa.
She was interested in art from a very young age when she spent time in the company of Filippo de Pisis, a family friend, and when she saw the architecture of Giuseppe Terragni from whom – we might guess – she learnt to pay attention to light.
After having graduated from the Institut Polytechnique, Lausanne, and having studied further in San Francisco, in 1959 she set up her own studio in Milan. From then on the basic theme of her art was the conflict/harmony between light and space, something the artist uses in her art work as well as in her architecture and design. From 1959 on she frequented the studio of Lucio Fontana, and then she became close to the artists who had founded the Azimut gallery in Milan, Piero Manzoni and Enrico Castellani. In that period, due to her journeys for her numerous exhibitions throughout Europe (more than 400 solo and group shows), Vigo came to know the artists and places of the ZERO movement in Germany, the Netherlands, and France.

Via Nanda Vigo

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Hudson Street Lounge Chair by Ralph Lauren

Hudson Street Lounge Chair by Ralph Lauren

After the replica the real one. Her you see the nuts clearly.

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Lounge Chair Basque by Eichholz – M&O 2017 (06)



Lounge Chair Basque by Eichholz

I see I have an enourmous backlog in showing my own photo’s here. This is mainly because I haven’t taken the time to find a proper title on many occasions or noted even creator or designer. The main reason for starting now to work on this is the fact that I now can try to identify the chairs I took photo’s of via Google lens.

I first believed this is the Ralph Lauren Hudson Street lounge chair, but it is a replica. I’m missing 4 nuts on the sides…I had hoped Maison & Object in Paris would have banned a replica….but not….Eichholz “works with in house designers err I would say copiists”

Luckily I had a photo of a tag.

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Suzenne by Chiara Andreatti

Suzenne by Chiara Andreatti for Gebrüder Thonet Vienna

A piece brimming with contemporary spirit, the SUZENNE lounge chair by Chiara Andreatti offers a graceful take on some of Gebrüder Thonet Vienna’s trademark features: bent beech-wood and woven cane. The chair features a sleek structure in bent beech-wood, with the combination of straight and curved lines securing the backrest in woven cane, with wood frame. The cushions on the seat and backrest are soft and cosy, springing forth like a flower from the stem.

About Chiara Andreatti

Chiara Andreatti was born not far from Venice and she moved to Milan to study in the
European Institute of Design and then to attend a Master’s program at Domus Academy.
She has worked to several design studios like Raffaella Mangiarotti , Renato Montagne and studio Lissoni Associati where he has been working for more than ten years. She design for companies like Atipico, Glas Italia, Non Sans Raison, CCtapis and Mingardo, actually she work like art director for Karpeta and Texturae. In 2018 she was called to represent the 10th anniversary of Fendi’s edition at Design Miami. Her work has been published on major domestic and international magazines (Domus, Interior, Surface, Rum, Living, Wallpaper, Elle Decor, Living, Icon, Ddn etc.)

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