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Ghost Lounge Chair

Cini Boeri - 1987

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"I would never have thought of making a chair from glass… My initial distrust of an idea which seemed quite unrealistic was overcome by the desire to take up the challenge and see whether it could actually be made, whether Fiam would be clever enough to transform the concept into reality."

"Of course we all know what the name Ghost implies. I designed this chair, with its ghostly transparency, at a time when I was terribly tired of designing armchairs and sofas, but that was what everyone was asking me to do. So I said to myself, let's make one you can't see!” Cini Boeri

Born in Milan, Cini Boeri graduated from the Politecnico in Milan in 1951. She worked for the Zanuso practice from 1952 to 1963. Since 1963, Boeri worked as an independent professional in the fields of architecture and industrial design. She designed houses, apartments and shops both in Italy and abroad, paying particular attention to the study of the functionality of the space in smaller house and the psychological relationships between man and environment. In the area of industrial design she concerned herself with furnishing elements and components for the building trade.

She has given many lectures at prestigious universities all over the world and during 1981 and 1983, she was appointed contact professor at the Architecture faculty of the Politecnico in Milan.

Cini Boeri was a member of the Board of Directors of the XVI Triennale in Milano.
Different examples of her achievements can be found in museums and international exhibitions and she has been awarded many prizes, among which, in 1979, a Compasso d’Oro, Roscoe prize in 1978 and 1984, Premio Saiedue 1983, Bio 10 Gold Medal Ljubljana 1984, '85 Stuttgart Design Award, Design-Auswahl '90 Stuttgart. Cini Boeri has sat on many juries of international competitions. As well as contributions to specialist journals, she has published the book "Le dimensioni umane dell'abitazione" ("The human size of houses", Milan, Franco Angeli 1980) and the essay "La dimensione del domestico" (Milan, Franco Angeli 1983).

FIAM, founded by Vittorio Livi in 1973, designs, develops and produces items of furniture in curved glass, creating them through a combination of craftsmanship and industrial processes, effectively merging tradition and innovation, hand-crafting and design.

Vittorio Livi came to know and appreciate glass from a very young age. Solid and fragile, natural and artificial, ancient and industrial all at the same time, glass is a mass of seeming contradictions, and Livi loved it for just that, as well as for its practical qualities. Glass is environmentally friendly and hygienic: it may look simple, because of its transparency, but both its chemistry and physics are in fact very complex. And this material of vast potential was virtually only used for the production of small accessories or ornaments in the world of furniture.

And so in the young Vittorio Livi’s creative mind, a dream began to take shape: glass would become a unique star in the world of fine design, being used to produce items of furniture which would be astonishingly solid yet beautifully transparent; design items which would rise above the age of their production, untouched by the passing years, spaces and fashions.

Lounge chair

Monolithic chair in 12mm thick curved glass

SPECIFICATIONS

Width 95cm, depth 75cm, height 68cm
Total load capacity: 150kg
Note: this product is HEAVY and FRAGILE, please make adequate arrangements for the reception, or use our professional "white glove" delivery service

Made in Italy

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