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Armchair | Loveseat

Aldo Rossi Luca Meda,

Designed by Aldo Rossi and Luca Meda for a small theatrical space in Milan created for the Alcantara company but never realized, the Teatro series was constructed in solid wood in pieces of consistent form. The legs are rectangular prisms. The relationships between the various elements - back, seat, and legs - are based on simple geometry.

Design Aldo Rossi
Luca Meda,

“A chair must not only be stable but must also evoke stability; it must not only support in a secure manner but must evoke a feeling of security, of tranquil solidity. Rossi and Meda’s chair, so solid and consistent, appears to me to have been designed on the basis of its formal and evocative character more than its constructive character.”

Daniele Vitale

Design

Luca Meda

Luca Meda wrote an important chapter in Italian enterprise history. He contributed to the design culture of the Molteni Group with great passion and dedication. He was an example of a perfect symbiosis between creativity, business, art and industry. This is something of a paradox for a designer who loves drawing and uses a pencil more than any other tool to describe and reinvent reality. Since the late 70's Luca Meda was dedicated to the design of ranges. He created furniture which became icons. With Aldo Rossi he created the Piroscafo bookshelf, the Zim chairs and the Ho armchair, the Vivette armchair, the Primafila sofa, the 505 programme and the Pass system.

Complete biography

“Simplicity is not good in itself, but there surely is a type of simplicity that comes from generations of work”.

Luca Meda

Design

Aldo Rossi

Aldo Rossi (Milan, May 3, 1931 - Milan, September 4, 1997) was one of the greatest Italian architects of the 1980’s. His Molteni Group collaboration marked his passage from masterful architect to an industrial designer. He created models and furnishings for the Museum of Maastricht, the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and the reconstruction of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice. Aldo Rossi designed items that were destined to become icons of the 20th century.

Complete biography

“Perhaps it is snobbery but the more I see the world, the more I feel being a citizen of it and the more I want to go back to the old way of things”

Aldo Rossi

Parigi Aldo Rossi, 1989 - 2021

Piroscafo Aldo Rossi, Luca Meda, 1992

Carteggio Aldo Rossi, 1987

Cartesio Aldo Rossi, 1994

Cabina dell'Elba Aldo Rossi, 1980