Selene Vico Magistretti Artemide chair
Delivering from: Conversano, Italy
£420
Description
PROJECT
1966
REALIZATION
1969 – 1990
PRODUCER
Artemis
DESCRIPTION
The Selene chair whose project dates back to 1966 is designed by Magistretti to be produced in plastic material, as he himself states: The seat and back are simple curved surfaces. The legs were, for me, the true image of the piece with a thin volume like the leg of an ordinary wooden chair. I solved it using the characteristic of a mold of plastic material formed by a simple sheet of 3 millimeters thick with a simple very resistant “S” section that gave the object a clear relationship with the common chairs without elephant legs and not from chair. It was a fun work with the model maker carpenter on the wooden model. Mass-produced, “a finished specimen comes out of the machine every five minutes”, Selene is the result of a single molding and pressing action on the prepreg sheet (Ottagono 15, 1969). Magistretti solves the problem of the resistance of the legs by adopting an “S” configuration that gives resistance to the plastic sheet which is only 3 mm thick. The formal but structural solution has already been adopted previously in the Chimera lamp (self-supporting sheet in methacrylate) and in the development of the legs of the Demetrio table, also made of GRP.
TECHNICAL DATA
GRP. white
MEASURES
cm. 75 x 47 x 50
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JF Gallery
Dealer of design furniture, iconic pieces and vintage from 1900s to 2000s, based in Conversano, south Italy.
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