Marco Zanuso
From the Lady armchair for Arflex (gold medal at the 1951 Milan Triennale) to the television sets for Brion Vega, the objects created by the Milanese architect Marco Zanuso (1916 - 2001) are the result of long studies and could be defined as the archetypes of the Italian domestic scene of the 1950s and 1960s. It all began in 1946: Pirelli proposed to Zanuso, already known for his building and urban planning projects and his collaboration with the magazines Domus and Casabella, to study the implications of foam rubber (used during the war for the padding of airplanes) in the interior. The Arflex brand, with its upholstered furniture designed by Zanuso and the most illustrious Italian designers, was born from this research, establishing itself internationally as an industrial producer of innovative and technologically advanced furniture.
