Carla | Armchair

Doriana Mandrelli and Massimiliano Fuksas

Two surfaces intersect and rotate, their movement giving rise to the backrest, seat and armrests of the Carla seat. Simple geometries, like the slender contours of a flower, characterise this project by Doriana and Massimiliano Fuksas.

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The Carla seat has a wooden frame and padding in non-deforming fire-resistant polyurethane. The spring system consists of elastic belts. Automatic tip-up seat with joints in noise-damping nylon. Upholstery in Pelle Frau® leather from the Color System, fabric or velvet, produced entirely by hand using traditional upholstery methods. On request, the Carla chair can come with a wooden backrest and underseat panel and a foldaway writing table, as well as structural and colour customisations. Installed in rows using metal bases finished with scratchproof and shock-resistant epoxy powder paint.

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Doriana Mandrelli and Massimiliano Fuksas

The professional work of the Fuksas studio started in 1967 with the opening of its first offices in Rome. It became well-known in France, where in 1989 it opened its second studio in Paris with Doriana O. Mandrelli; in 2002 its third opened in Frankfurt. The work of the studio involves various departments according to a multidisciplinary international profile: architecture, art, town planning, landscape and since 1997 design, a section directed by Doriana O. Mandrelli Fuksas. Among the most recent projects of the studio are: the New Rho-Pero Exhibition centre in Milan, the ZENITH music hall in Strasbourg and for design, the BIBI seating for Poltrona Frau.

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