T904 | Bench

Gastone Rinaldi

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Immagini 130
Immagini 130

The structure of the T904 bench is designed with great precision in black painted steel tubing. The seat, composed of a poplar plywood table with ash veneer in a teak stain, is very simple and can be completed according to taste with three cushions placed on the wooden surface. The cushions are padded in polyurethane foam and dacron. The upholstery is in Pelle Frau® leather or removable fabric.  

T904 | Bench

Gastone Rinaldi
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The T 904 bench, a historic piece by Gastone Rinaldi and reissued by Poltrona Frau, is a project of rare simplicity and elegance. It was originally designed as a transportable side table with handles, supplied with cushions so it could also be used as a seat. An item of furniture which, with its clean design and use of tubular metal, revisits two distinctive features of 1950s design which have come back into fashion today.  

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Gastone Rinaldi

Gastone Rinaldi was born in Padua on 16 November 1920. In 1916 his father Mario had established RIMA, a company for the production of metal furniture. Gastone enrolled in the Faculty of Economics, but he was passionate about design and sport (as a footballer, he went as far as playing with Cremona, at the time very strong, and as a racing car driver, he took part in the legendary Thousand Mile race). In 1948, together with his brother Giorgio, he took over from his father in managing the business. He met Gio Ponti and in 1950 he designed the chairs (DU10 and DU11) for the Hospital Section of the IX Milan Triennial. At the same Triennial, the DU9 chair was also presented. Domus published his creations regularly.

In 1952, he attended the XXX Milano Fair in the section curated by Alberto Rosselli, Ettore Sottsass and Marco Zanuso. The armchairs for the Piccolo theatre of Milan followed, with Zanuso. In 1954, he won the Compasso d’Oro for the chair DU30. He participated with Ponti, Parisi, De Carli and Gardella in the American adventure of Altamira, one of the first companies across the ocean to call Italian designers. He therefore worked with Carlo Mollino on the chairs for the Molinette Hospital of Turin. In 1957, the armchair DU41 won the silver medal at the XI Triennial. However the internal relations within RIMA became complex and in 1974 Rinaldi established Thema. In 1978, he obtained a nomination for the Compasso d’Oro for the armchair Arianna and in 1981 another for the folding chair Dafne. Thema closed in 1989, Gastone Rinaldi died in Padua on 02 March 2006.

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