C&B Italia Mario Bellini The Chess | 1971
Modular seat model “The Chess” produced by C&B Italia design Mario Bellini, 1971. Structure in black polyurethane foam.
Sizes: H36, W90, D30.
“Duraplum” polyurethane foam structure, despite the relatively soft consistency and solid external surface, can be used both as seating surfaces and as support surfaces. To make the panels of these elements, the architect Bellini used machinery for the manufacture of some car components.
Mario Bellini, after graduating from the Milan Polytechnic, devoted himself to architecture and design.
He taught industrial design in Venice and worked as an interior architect. He designed, in 1963, for Olivetti, calculators, electric typewriters and computers, such as the one used by NASA, ‘Program 101’. From 1986 to 1991 he was editor-in-chief of the magazine ‘Domus’.
The MoMA in New York dedicated a monographic exhibition to him in 1987 and has 25 works of him. He has created, among others, the Portello district of the Milan Fair, the Tokyo Design Center, the Essen Fair in Germany, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne in Australia, the Museum of Islamic Arts in the Louvre.
Bibliography: Mario Mastropiero, Rolando Gorla, ‘An industry for design, research, designers, the image of B&B Italia’, Lybra, Milan, 1999, page 217.
Photographs from a private collection (Museo Della Sedia) of vintage Italian design chairs. © All rights reserved.
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C&B Italia Mario Bellini The Chess | 1971
Modular seat model “The Chess” produced by C&B Italia design Mario Bellini, 1971. Structure in black polyurethane foam.
Sizes: H36, W90, D30.
“Duraplum” polyurethane foam structure, despite the relatively soft consistency and solid external surface, can be used both as seating surfaces and as support surfaces. To make the panels of these elements, the architect Bellini used machinery for the manufacture of some car components.
Mario Bellini, after graduating from the Milan Polytechnic, devoted himself to architecture and design.
He taught industrial design in Venice and worked as an interior architect. He designed, in 1963, for Olivetti, calculators, electric typewriters and computers, such as the one used by NASA, ‘Program 101’. From 1986 to 1991 he was editor-in-chief of the magazine ‘Domus’.
The MoMA in New York dedicated a monographic exhibition to him in 1987 and has 25 works of him. He has created, among others, the Portello district of the Milan Fair, the Tokyo Design Center, the Essen Fair in Germany, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne in Australia, the Museum of Islamic Arts in the Louvre.
Bibliography: Mario Mastropiero, Rolando Gorla, ‘An industry for design, research, designers, the image of B&B Italia’, Lybra, Milan, 1999, page 217.
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.
