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Sacco Chair

Chair
1968-1969 (made)
Artist/Maker
Zanotta SpA (manufacturers)
Gatti, Piero (designer)
Paolini, Cesare (designers)
Teodoro, Franco (designers)
Place of origin
Italy (designed)



Object details
Categories
Furniture
Plastic
Object type
Chair
Materials and techniques
Polyurethane-coated fabric, expanded polystyrene beads
Polyurethane
Polystyrene
Style
Pop
Production typeMass produced
Bibliographic references
  • 'Polyurethane-coated textiles found on furniture from the 1960s amd 1970s: their manufacture, deterioration and consolidation'; V&A/RCA Conservation MA thesis by Barbara Schertel, 2006, considering this chair and Circ.431-1970
  • Roger Griffith, Two Pooped-out Pop Chairs: What is the Future for our Plastic Collections? in V&A Conservation Journal, issue 21, October 1996
Collection
Furniture and Woodwork Collection
Accession number
CIRC.73-1970

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Record createdAugust 9, 2006
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O126915/sacco-chair-chair-gatti-piero/
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