Sottsass Nine-O Chair from Emeco
The Hanover, PA company is releasing its latest collaboration next month at the Milan Furniture Fair. It's called Nine-O and is designed by the late Ettore Sottsass, who passed away December 31 at age 90. This was the last chair he designed.
From Emeco's press release, "Chris Redfern, the British architect who worked along side Mr. Sottsass for the past 12 years as his design associate at Sottsass Associati recalls, “Ettore always had orange cushions fixed onto his navy chairs at home in Milan and our idea started there. We wanted to make the new chair soft, friendly and of course colorful.”
Of course colorful, like Sottsass's iconic cherry-red Olivetti typewriter and his designs for the Memphis group, like the Casablanca sideboard. Both are on display in the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Collab Gallery.
Emeco also provides this wonderfully chivalrous object-analysis from Sottsass, circa 1976: “A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady."
Prices are $385 for the standard stacking chair to $1595 for the hand-polished swivel chair.
Caroline Tiger
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