Cab 413 Cowhide Chair

Overview

The Cab 413 is a chair by Mario Bellini for Cassina, listed on the page as a cowhide chair. Sheet and page both give 1977 as the design year. The page headline calls it the iconic chair by Mario Bellini, and the sheet drawings show a chair with arms.

Construction

On the sheet the chair stands on black-coated steel tube, with a seat shell of black plastic. Padding is flexible cold-moulded polyurethane foam, the cover is leather in price-list colours, and the plastic feet are black, fitted with or without a small adhesive felt. The page gives the structure as free-standing cowhide, the padding as flexible cold-moulded polyurethane foam and the upholstery as saddle leather in the collection's colours.

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Specifications

• Dimensions (sheet drawing 413 S1/S2/S3): 62 cm wide, 52 cm deep, 82 cm high
• Larger version (413 M1/M2/M3): 66 cm wide, 57 cm deep, 82 cm high; the page offers Standard and Maxi sizes
• Leather: saddle leather, plus saddle leather or hand-shaded saddle leather; 17 saddle leather colours on the page

Frame, shell and cover

On the sheet the Cab 413 is built on a black-coated tubular steel frame carrying a seat shell of black plastic. Flexible cold moulded polyurethane foam forms the padding, and the cover is leather in price-list colours. The feet are black plastic, with or without a small adhesive felt. Cassina's page lists the structure as free-standing cowhide.

Sizes and leathers today

The sheet reports that the model has been brought up to date: an XL size is 5 cm deeper and 4 cm wider than the base one, new Plus saddle leathers are offered in pure aniline, and some versions carry a gradient applied by hand on a natural base.