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Mauro Chair
Established & Sons
The Mauro Chair is a stackable timber chair with plenty of character. Created by Italian designer Mauro Pasquinelli in the 1970s, it has been rediscovered by Established & Sons and given a sculptural 21st-century makeover.
The chair had not previously gone into production due to its challenging geometries and curves, explains Sebastian Wrong. “When it was originally designed you could never have made a sophisticated chair like this at a competitive price point, simply because the technology didn't exist.”
A self-confessed perfectionist, when Wrong and Gregorutti visited Pasquinelli for the first time, he told them about a prototype in his attic that he considered an evolution on the chair they had seen. The backrest on this later chair featured sophisticated curves, the seat was lighter, the legs more defined and there were elegant chamfered edges on the backrest. This is the chair that was to become Established & Sons’ Mauro Chair.
Mauro pasquinelli
Mauro Pasquinelli is one of Italy’s most prolific and respected chair designers. Born in Scandicci, Florence, in the 1930s, he had his first taste of furniture making as a child in the workshop of his carpenter father. After graduating from the Florence Art Institute in 1951, he won a series of awards, quickly establishing himself as a significant talent during a period when the Italian design industry was becoming a world leader.
Designing more than 50 successful chairs, he became a staple name in the ‘Triangle of the Chair’, an area of north-eastern Italy near the city of Udine responsible for the design and manufacturing of a huge swathe of the world’s most successful wooden seating products. His pieces have regularly featured in exhibitions across Italy and further afield in Cologne, Chicago and Ljubljana. Now in his 80s, he is still designing in Scandicci, and his work is being revisited outside Italy through his collaboration with Established & Sons.
H770mm x W515mm x D490mm Seat Height: 450mm
Oak or Ash
Mauro Chair
Established & Sons
