Carlo Felice Sedia Platea Teatro

Chair | Prototype

Aldo Rossi Luca Meda,

Designed by Aldo Rossi and Luca Meda for the auditorium of the Teatro Carlo Felice, in Genoa, renovated by Aldo Rossi with Ignazio Gardella, Fabio Reinhart and Angelo Sibilla from 1983 to 1991.

Design Aldo Rossi
Luca Meda,

The interior furnishings of the theater were entrusted to Molteni&C and UniFor. In the prototype, the chair was fixed, with a foldable seat, in natural domestic walnut, padded and upholstered in green/sky blue fabric. The seat is was based on the recollection of classical theater seats, but in the designers’ intentions it also looked toward constructive rationalism and to the design traditions of Ligurian and Genoese chairs. In the final version, the seats were produced with glossy black frames and red velvet upholstery.

Design

Luca Meda

Luca Meda wrote an important chapter in Italian enterprise history. He contributed to the design culture of the Molteni Group with great passion and dedication. He was an example of a perfect symbiosis between creativity, business, art and industry. This is something of a paradox for a designer who loves drawing and uses a pencil more than any other tool to describe and reinvent reality. Since the late 70's Luca Meda was dedicated to the design of ranges. He created furniture which became icons. With Aldo Rossi he created the Piroscafo bookshelf, the Zim chairs and the Ho armchair, the Vivette armchair, the Primafila sofa, the 505 programme and the Pass system.

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“Simplicity is not good in itself, but there surely is a type of simplicity that comes from generations of work”.

Luca Meda

Design

Aldo Rossi

Aldo Rossi (Milan, May 3, 1931 - Milan, September 4, 1997) was one of the greatest Italian architects of the 1980’s. His Molteni Group collaboration marked his passage from masterful architect to an industrial designer. He created models and furnishings for the Museum of Maastricht, the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and the reconstruction of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice. Aldo Rossi designed items that were destined to become icons of the 20th century.

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“Perhaps it is snobbery but the more I see the world, the more I feel being a citizen of it and the more I want to go back to the old way of things”

Aldo Rossi