UniFor Armchair - Parigi
ARMCHAIR - PARIGI
ARMCHAIR - PARIGI
Aldo Rossi
The project for the Parigi armchair comes from the desire to design a piece of furniture capable of adapting to living and working environments. Aldo Rossi's answer is a simple seat, far removed from the claims of efficiency, that can bring comfort and intimacy to the office environment.
Aldo Rossi proposes an armchair that appears as rigid as wood, but is actually soft and comfortable: a black painted aluminium frame is completed by a self-supporting seat and backrest in polyurethane foam with a red paint finish. The Parigi armchair is an iconic piece of Italian design.
Parigi Designed in 1989, the Parigi armchair was presented in Paris, on Designers’ Saturday, at the UniFor showroom on Rue des Saints-Pères
Parigi is the response to the needs of the office environment as interpreted by Aldo Rossi: a domestic space for working. Born on the request to design furniture that would be suitable for both home and office, Rossi’s Parigi armchair is simple, elegant, and extremely functional.
The seat and backrest of the Parigi armchair are rectangular, with a minimalist design. The geometry of the armchair is interrupted by dynamic curves that form the arms and front feet, while seemingly pushing the entire structure off its normal inclination.
The structure is based on calendared aluminium elements, finished in matte black varnish. The seat and backrest are composed of moulded shells in red polyurethane that encase varying densities of rubber padding. The result is a chair that is both beautiful and surprisingly comfortable.
DESIGNER
ALDO ROSSI
"It may sound pretentious, but the more I travel the world, the more I feel I am one of its citizens and the more I return to an ancient sense of things."
Aldo Rossi (1931-1997) was born in Milan, where he graduated in architecture at the Politecnico di Milano. In 1970 he began teaching at several American universities, including Harvard and Yale.
He held a number of prestigious positions, including director of the architecture section of the Venice Biennale in 1983, while dividing his architecture practice between public and private construction.
To mention just a few of his projects, the residential building in the Gallaratese district of Milan, the Cemetery of San Cataldo in Modena, the renovation of the Teatro Carlo Felice opera house in Genoa, the city block between Kochstrasse and Friedrichstrasse in Berlin, the reconstruction of Teatro La Fenice opera house in Venice, and the Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht.
Architect and theorist, named Accademico di San Luca in 1979, winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize 1990 and the Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture in 1991, Aldo Rossi is also famous for his work as a designer—collaborating with Alessi, Artemide, Longoni, Molteni and UniFor—and as a painter and graphic artist, two fields closely tied to his design work.
INFORMATION
CHARACTERISTICS
Armchair, Polyurethane foam, Linear, Minimal design
APPLICATION AND USE IN CONSTRUCTION
Interior
SIZE
Length : 85,3 cm
Width : 74,8x96,7 cm
SEAT AND BACK
Integral polyurethane
STRUCTURE
Coating