Sciangai is a folding coat stand by Zanotta designed in 1973 by De Pas, D'Urbino and Lomazzi, a piece of history of the best Italian design at an international level, inspired by the ancient Chinese game. Each wooden Sciangai element forms a ground support at the lower end and a stand for hats, coats and other garments at the upper end. The components are connected together just above the centre, creating a wide circumference of supports at the base, which provides stability, and a more collected set of hooks for clothes at the top. Jonathan De Pas, Donato D'Urbino, and Paolo Lomazzi are three Italian designers who, united under the acronym DDL, have been working in the field of industrial design since 1966. After the death of Jonathan de Pas (1932-1991), the Milanese design studio DDL - De Pas, D'Urbino, Lomazzi became Studio D'Urbino Lomazzi. It is a three-part professional personality of great relevance for Italian design; the three designers have collaborated with the biggest companies in the furniture industry and in 1979 received the prestigious Compasso d'Oro award for the Sciangai project created for Zanotta in 1973. In addition to industrial design, the three designers also devoted themselves to architectural, exhibition, interior and urban planning projects during their professional life; but they made a name for themselves above all for their trendy and unconventional style, a pop paradox of the 1960s, which they applied to furnishings. Of great importance, however, is their work as installers and architects for the 1970 Osaka World Expo, where they realised a series of pneumatic residential buildings for the Italian pavilion. In the field of furniture, their most famous works are the inflatable armchair Blow for Zanotta and the two-seater armchair Joe for Poltronova in the shape of a baseball glove (homage to American baseball player Joe di Maggio, who died in 1999). In 1971 they also made a modular bookcase for Longato called Brick and the clothes stand Sciangai, also for Zanotta.
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