MIES Armchair by Archizoom for Poltronova

MIES armchair with ottoman (1969) by Archizoom (Italy) /Poltronova.

Chromed steel frame, a seat in elastic latex that forms to the weight of the body, headrest in pony-skin leather, a lighted footrest.

Dimensions:
Armchair: L 131 x H 80 x W 74 cm.
Footrest: W 105 x H 34 x D 20 cm.

This chair/footrest combo was a wedding present to one member of the Archizoom Group from the other members. This iconic chair not only plays with the levant minimalism of Mies van der Rohe, but has come to represent 1960s-1970s, Italian Radical Design.

The Archizoom Group based their theories on a need to upend the predominantly bourgeois architectural tendencies of the time.

This piece is simultaneously luxurious and yet essential.