Anonima Castelli Bologna Enzo Mari Box | 1976
Chair production Anonima Castelli Bologna design Enzo Mari model Box, 1976.
Demountable structure in gray painted tubular metal, seat and back in white injection-molded polypropylene.
Once disassembled, the components of this chair could easily be placed in a box.
Old stock fund but like new, present the cardboard combined with the sale with instructions.
Museo Della Sedia Collection.
| Dimensions | 82 × 43 × 45 cm (height length depth ) |
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The ingenious design of the Box chair, which must be assembled by the user, features a perforated seat made of injection-molded polypropylene and a removable frame made of tubular metal.
The components are supplied disassembled in a box that gives the product its name, all of which is placed in a correspondingly sized plastic bag.
This design reflects Mari’s passion for puzzles, but at the same time the chair’s solid, unadorned appearance, along with the range of bright colors available (including lemon yellow, bright orange, and cobalt blue), demonstrate his mastery of creating objects that are not only fashionable and sought-after, but also intelligent, well-conceived, and above all rational.
The Box chair was an immediate success, in part because it responded to the trend, born in the 1960s, of furniture that could be disassembled and easily transported.
Some of Mari’s early chair designs share with the Box chair a substantial quality combined with maximum functionality. Currently out of production, the Box chair was reissued in 1996 by Driade for a period of four years.
Photographs from a private collection (Museo Della Sedia) of vintage Italian design chairs. © All rights reserved.
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Anonima Castelli Bologna Enzo Mari Box | 1976
Chair production Anonima Castelli Bologna design Enzo Mari model Box, 1976.
Demountable structure in gray painted tubular metal, seat and back in white injection-molded polypropylene.
Once disassembled, the components of this chair could easily be placed in a box.
Old stock fund but like new, present the cardboard combined with the sale with instructions.
Museo Della Sedia Collection.
| Dimensions | 82 × 43 × 45 cm (height length depth ) |
|---|
The ingenious design of the Box chair, which must be assembled by the user, features a perforated seat made of injection-molded polypropylene and a removable frame made of tubular metal.
The components are supplied disassembled in a box that gives the product its name, all of which is placed in a correspondingly sized plastic bag.
This design reflects Mari’s passion for puzzles, but at the same time the chair’s solid, unadorned appearance, along with the range of bright colors available (including lemon yellow, bright orange, and cobalt blue), demonstrate his mastery of creating objects that are not only fashionable and sought-after, but also intelligent, well-conceived, and above all rational.
The Box chair was an immediate success, in part because it responded to the trend, born in the 1960s, of furniture that could be disassembled and easily transported.
Some of Mari’s early chair designs share with the Box chair a substantial quality combined with maximum functionality. Currently out of production, the Box chair was reissued in 1996 by Driade for a period of four years.
Photographs from a private collection (Museo Della Sedia) of vintage Italian design chairs. © All rights reserved.
Send us information, suggestions or corrections from our contact page.
