Giancarlo Piretti

“I was thinking of creating a folding chair, where the dynamics of opening and closing of the rotating parts could be solved with a single joint, and also thinking of the seat and back stamped from a transparent plastic sheet on a structure of very thin steel tubes.” Giancarlo Piretti had in mind a theorem, which he intended to demonstrate: the joint as the fulcrum of action declares or negates the composition of the seat, and in action alternately achieves both forms, open for use, closed for storage. Fifty years after his first fortunate intuition, the designer affirms, with exquisite irony, to not yet have fully proven the theorem. This is because, while there is still much interest in the chair in markets all over in the world, he intends to work on the update, leaving the unmistakable dynamic configuration unchanged and, collaborating with Codiceicona, reworking the concept according to technological opportunity and the most up- to-date materials for a more consistent emotional development of the function represented. The special edition, dedicated to the historic anniversary, with the texture designed and signed by the author, inaugurates the irrefutable milestone, the new season in collaboration with Codiceicona.