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SILVER Seller in Pistoia, Italy
Canada armchair by Ettore Sottsass for Poltronova, designed in 1959 and produced in the 1960s. Wooden structure, padded seat and backrest covered with blue-green velvet. Bibliography: P. C. Santini, Facendo mobili con, Poltronova Edizioni, Florence, 1977, p. 87. In the 1960s, in a region like Tuscany that produced literally nothing in the field of design, Poltronova gave a boost: it had all the best people on its team: not only Ettore Sottsass, who was its art director, but also Gae Aulenti, Paolo Portoghesi, Giovanni Michelucci, Angelo Mangiarotti, the Archizoom and Superstudio groups, and De Pas-D'Urbino-Lomazzi. Moving away from Dino Gavina, from the beginning Sergio Cammilli adopted a different and experimental method, gathering the polycentric soul of Italian design and its contradictions and opposing tendencies. He was convinced that this complexity was the very source of the unity and vitality of that extraordinary phenomenon. Cammilli immediately put together, in the same catalog, very different projects that were the result of the ideation of the various designers involved.
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