Measuring just 5cm in depth when folded the Plia Chair is a design icon.

The Italian industrial designer Giancarlo Piretti was born in 1940 in Bologna, he studied at the Art Institute of Bologna and the Academy of Fine Arts from 1963 until 1970.

During the 1960s he taught interior design at the Art Institute whilst also working for the Italian design company Castelli and it was during this time that he gained several industrial patents mostly for chair designs.

It was through Giancarlo Piretti’ that Castelli developed an international reputation for their furniture designs.

His most well known and celebrated design is the folding ‘ Plia ‘ chair which won the BIO 5 distinction and the SMAU prize at the Ljubljana Biennial in 1971 as well as Germanys Gute Form Prize in 1973 and can be found in permanent museum collections around the world.

Here we have a pair of Plia Chairs in dark brown perspex with chrome plated frames and original stickers to the underside.

Understated elegance and functionality at its best.

Dimensions :

Height : 74 cm

Depth : 51 cm

Width : 46.5 cm

Condition : Good