Billiani
Archetype-A 831
Archetype-A is a wooden chair designed by Mario Alessiani that celebrates the company’s origins and know-how. The design is as simple as possible. Nothing more than four legs, a seat and a back.
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We have produced wooden chairs in Italy for over a century, in a region of small specialized workshops where the culture of wood has deep roots.
The Billiani company was founded in 1911 to produce chairs in curved wood with caning. In 2019 Cristina Celestino, an architect and designer based in Milan, was appointed as the company’s artistic director. The chair is still a central focus, as is the material: wood, the true leitmotif of the collection.
Mario Alessiani
Mario Alessiani was born in Teramo in 1989 and studied product design at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Rome. He worked as a junior designer in Giulio Patrizi’s studio and then in London with Jake Phipps, before founding his own industrial design studio in Teramo in 2013.
His work explores simplicity and function, and his Float lamp for Axolight won an Archiproducts Design Award in 2020. He teaches design at Sichuan Normal University, IED Rome and the University of Camerino. For Billiani he designed Archetype-A in 2024, a beech chair celebrating the company’s origins and know-how.
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