Zanotta - Mezzadro Stool

 

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The Mezzadro Stool is a design-classic of the brothers Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni.

Already in 1957 they preented the world a first prototype of their stool, which is manufacturered by Zanotta since 1970.

The seat of this unusual pendant is a simple tractor seat, which the designers set on a wing screw on a bended steell construction. As another pier, the cnstruction acts as foot out of wood.

Every of the parts has a carrying function and nothing on Mezzadro is unnecessary. The design is also outstanding and innovative and draws a bow to the artistic sculpture.

Mezzadro reckoned with the stool Sella, for which the brothers Castiglioni converted a bicycle saddle into a seat, as most extreme design of the creative team. It is perfect and fantasyful symbiosis of shape and function and reckonedes as an exemplaric sample of the so-clled Radical Designs, a streaming of the Italian design, which seceded itself in the 60s- and 70s- of the 20. century by the doctrine of the functionalism and the famous style - incarnated in Italy through the Bel Design.

The Mezzadro Stool by Zanotta is also available in the colours alu, orange, yellow, white and black.

Supplementary information

• Datenblatt zum Mezzadro Hocker von Zanotta (PDF 94,1 KB)

Design: Achille Castiglioni

Achille Castiglioni (1918-2002) is of the most influencing designers of the 20th century. Together with his brothers Livio and Giacomo, Achille run a bureau for architecture where they created trend-setting design. Designer Achille Castiglioni