Poltronova
Mitzi
The Mitzi sofa — 1981, for Poltronova — part of the rich production of the Austrian master Hans Hollein, highlights a rigorous design while staging of a dialectic between different connotations and symbolisms. Soft and rigid elements are present together in the materials and forms. Upholstered cushions and soft wool cloth come alongside the walnut, both solid and in sheets, of the structure, and the curved line of the backrest coexists with the straight line at the base, masculine and feminine together: a sofa with a woman's name.
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In the 1960s, in a region such as Tuscany which produced literally nothing in the field of design, Poltronova had all the best on its team: not just Ettore Sottsass, who was its art director, but Gae Aulenti, Paolo Portoghesi, Giovanni Michelucci, Angelo Mangiarotti, the Archizoom and Superstudio groups, De Pas-D’Urbino-Lomazzi; not just the mentors, but also the leading exponents of New Design who were then called radicals…
The Centro Studi Poltronova was created in 2005 for two reasons: to archive important documents associated with the original Poltronova Company, and also to make some of its more iconic furniture and lighting pieces available in the marketplace.
Hans Hollein
Hans Hollein was born in Vienna in 1934, studied there and in Chicago and Berkeley, and made his name with his first commission, the Retti candle shop of 1965. His buildings include the Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach and the Haas Haus in Vienna; he won the Pritzker Prize in 1985 and directed the 1996 Venice Architecture Biennale. He died in 2014.
For Poltronova he designed the Mitzi sofa in 1981, a sofa with a woman’s name that pairs soft upholstery with a rigid structure, the curve of its backrest set against the straight line of its base.
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