90s Paola Navone ‘otto 111’ fauteuil for Gervasoni set/2

Designer
Paola Navone
Manufacturer
Gervasoni
Period
1990's
Origin
Italy
Material
Canvas, Wengé
Color
beige, Wengé
Code
07190521ZF
Condition
Good condition consistent with age and use.
Dimensions
77,5cm (w) x 75cm (h) x 80cm (h) | seath 44cm
Price
Sold, located Biaritz
Provenance
See writing below.

Founded in 1882, the Gervasoni company is currently managed by the third generation of the family with Giovanni and Michele Gervasoni uit Udine in Italy.
The aesthetic standards and production techniques have changed over the years but not the passion for beauty and artfully made.
Attention to detail, the use of natural materials crafted with mastery, suggestions of places near and far remain the hallmarks of Gervasoni products.

Born in Turin, Paola Navone adopted Milan as her home; she graduated in architecture in 1973 and between the Seventies and the Eighties she worked in the Alchinia group alongside with Alessandro Mendini, Ettore Sottsass and Andrea Branzi. In the same time, she began her long-lasting and fruitful collaboration with Abet Laminati; from 1985 to 1988 she became consultant for Unido and for the World Bank for the Philippines and Indonesia.

An architect, a designer, an art director and an interior design, Paola Navone has an extreme interest for the most different cultures suspended between the East and the West, between design and craftsmenship. Nowadays she collaborates with a very long list of heterogeneous Brands, such as Armani Casa, Knoll International, Alessi, Driade, Piazza Sempione, Casamilano, Molteni, Poliform and Gervasoni for which she is also artistic director. In 2000 she has been named “Designer of the Year” by prestigious German magazine Architektur & Wohnen.

The Otto 111 lounge chairs have been designed bij Paola Navone in her duty as artistic director of the brand. Luxury feeling combined with normality. These set of two are in good condition consistent with age and use. The flexible fabric can be changed, washed and taken off. The current ones are the original examples with the patina of normal usage.

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