Antropus Armchair by Marco Zanuso for Cassina

Armchair designed by marco zanuso in 1949, relaunched in 2015. Manufactured by cassina in italy. Antropus was created at the end of the 1940s when marco zanuso was commissioned to design the sets for the italian-language version of thornton wilder’s play the skin of our teeth, which was dubbed “la famiglia antropus” in italian, and was performed at the piccolo teatro in milan. The architect worked with arflex to produce an armchair fully upholstered in foam rubber; at the time, this material was considered highly innovative and was being promoted for use in domestic furniture-making for its expressive, and industrial ergonomic potential. The present-day version of this chair features polyurethane foam cfc free. This lends itself to creating a oversized and comfortable seat and backrest that fit snugly into the slender, curving profile of the side panels. Important information regarding images of products: please note that some of the images show other colors and variations of the model, these images are only to present interior design proposals. The item that is selling is on the first image. Important information regarding colour(s) of products: actual colours may vary. This is due to the fact that every computer monitor, laptop, tablet and phone screen has a different capability to display colours and that everyone sees these colours differently. We try to edit our photos to show all of our products as life-like as possible, but please understand the actual colour may vary slightly from your monitor about the designer: an architect, designer and university professor, marco zanuso (1916-2001) was one of the most important interpreters of the modern movement. Trained at the polytechnic university of milan and, in the immediate post-war years, co-editor of the magazine domus with ernesto n. Rogers, he received the gold medal and the grand prize at the milan triennial on various occasions (editions viii, ix, x, xi and xiii), and won five compassi d’oro between 1956 and 1985. Zanuso was one of the first designers in italy to take an interest in the industrialization of the product, going beyond the aesthetic question to incorporate technological, industrial, of distribution and communication. According to zanuso, the shape of an object destined for serial reproduction is an amalgam of possibilities, experimentation and innovation in the concrete process that connects creativity, production and sociocultural context. “through my projects, i want to shape what i call complexity”, marco zanuso. About the manufacturer: in a continuing dialogue between past, present, and future, cassina has created the i maestri collection, revisiting furnishing designs by the twentieth century’s best-known architects, including le corbusier, pierre jeanneret, charlotte perriand, charles rennie mackintosh, gerrit thomas rietveld, franco albini, frank lloyd wright and marco zanuso. While the designs and functional concepts have been precisely preserved, the models have been manufactured using evolved technology. This is also the company that has manufactured iconic pieces of contemporary design from the 1950s to the present day, ideated by some of the most important international designers. Today cassina continues to look to the future of design with audacious, passionate curiosity and an open, holistic approach. It affirms its exclusive ability to furnish a home’s living and dining spaces completely and iconically with the cassina perspective: a concept, a philosophy, an informed, futuristic thought. A detailed, expansive horizon of combinations; when placed together, the products have an innovative soul and the modern icons create authentic, welcoming, personal atmospheres involved in a conversation dominated by a code of design excellence, formal sensitive awareness, solidity and cultural authority.