Alias Riccardo Blumer La Leggera Michelangelo Pistoletto Mezzomare Mezzoterra 1996 | 2006
Chair, Artist’s Proof, signed in pen by Michelangelo Pistoletto. Production Alias Design Riccardo Blumer model Laleggera, year 1996. Stackable structure born from the encounter between a solid traditional material, solid wood, and the more contemporary and light expanded polyurethane with which the structure is filled. Hand-painted chair with a light blue base and a green island on the seat surrounded by black.
Sizes: H79, W44, D49, HS46.
Chair in excellent vintage condition.
Description
Laleggera in 1998, XVIII Compasso d’Oro award. In 2009 the project became part of the permanent collection of the Moma in New York.
The chairs, unique pieces, are signed and numbered by Pistoletto and Juan E. Sandoval.
“Mezzoterra Mezzomare” is the title of the installation created by Michelangelo Pistoletto and Juan Esteban Sandoval for Alias. The artists have drawn six different seas (Mediterranean, Baltic, Caribbean, Chinese, Black and Red) on 310 Laleggera chairs, the company’s best seller, designed by Riccardo Blumer and winner of the Compasso d’Oro in 1996. The chairs, ideally immersed half in the water and half on dry land, are hand-painted with different colors, to emphasize the geo-cultural diversity of the six seas and the cultural characteristics of the countries that overlook them.
The funds raised from the sale of the chairs, which represent the six seas of the project, will be donated by Alias to the non-profit association “Love Difference”, an artistic movement that promotes an Intermediterranean and multicultural policy, supported by the Pistoletto Foundation.
Photographs from a private collection (Museo Della Sedia) of vintage Italian design chairs. © All rights reserved.
Alias Riccardo Blumer La Leggera Michelangelo Pistoletto Mezzomare Mezzoterra 1996 | 2006
Chair, Artist’s Proof, signed in pen by Michelangelo Pistoletto. Production Alias Design Riccardo Blumer model Laleggera, year 1996. Stackable structure born from the encounter between a solid traditional material, solid wood, and the more contemporary and light expanded polyurethane with which the structure is filled. Hand-painted chair with a light blue base and a green island on the seat surrounded by black.
Sizes: H79, W44, D49, HS46.
Chair in excellent vintage condition.
Description
Laleggera in 1998, XVIII Compasso d’Oro award. In 2009 the project became part of the permanent collection of the Moma in New York.
The chairs, unique pieces, are signed and numbered by Pistoletto and Juan E. Sandoval.
“Mezzoterra Mezzomare” is the title of the installation created by Michelangelo Pistoletto and Juan Esteban Sandoval for Alias. The artists have drawn six different seas (Mediterranean, Baltic, Caribbean, Chinese, Black and Red) on 310 Laleggera chairs, the company’s best seller, designed by Riccardo Blumer and winner of the Compasso d’Oro in 1996. The chairs, ideally immersed half in the water and half on dry land, are hand-painted with different colors, to emphasize the geo-cultural diversity of the six seas and the cultural characteristics of the countries that overlook them.
The funds raised from the sale of the chairs, which represent the six seas of the project, will be donated by Alias to the non-profit association “Love Difference”, an artistic movement that promotes an Intermediterranean and multicultural policy, supported by the Pistoletto Foundation.
Photographs from a private collection (Museo Della Sedia) of vintage Italian design chairs. © All rights reserved.
