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Cicognino coffee table TN6
Easel table TL2
Rocking chair in wood PS16
Machine gun floor lamp
Mobile radio in crystal securit
Tavolo TL3
LB10 library
Sailing Ship Library
Fiorenza armchair
Fiorenza armchair
Fiorenza armchair
Three Pieces Armchair
Luisa armchair
Luisa armchair
Gala armchair
Margherita armchair
Margherita armchair sketch
Milanese underground handrail

Three Pieces Armchair

Franco Albini

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Franco Albini Foundation

Franco Albini Foundation

Via Telesio, 13, Milan

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The theme of the tube from the mid-1950s becomes one of Albini's most recurring themes in the study of support structures. At the apex of this research is the Three Pieces armchair, PL19, designed together with Franca Helg for Poggi. The external structure in tube, like a scaffolding trellis (the wide feet highlight this) develops upwards with curved lines, reminiscent of the fluid movement of the more controlled pieces of Art Nouveau. Anchored to this structure, the large seat, the enveloping backrest, armrests and the even wider "shield" headrest, designed like half a disk, float as if suspended, detached from each other. Totem armchair, "Punt-e-mes", throne, neo-liberty armchair, moon landing craft, are some of the images that evoked this mysterious seat with a large out-of-scale effect.
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Title: Three Pieces Armchair

Author: Franco Albini

Date: 1959

Technique: Tissue

Displayed in: Franco Albini Foundation

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