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Rp01 Armchair
RP01 armchair: Renzo Piano's tip-up seat for Rome's Parco della Musica, in steel and pressed wood.
Official product information
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Overview
The RP01 is an armchair that Renzo Piano created for Rome's Parco della Musica. Poltrona Frau's page says it adapts to different technical requirements. The page says the seats are installed in rows.
Construction
The supporting structure is steel and pressed wood, padded with fire-resistant, non-deforming polyurethane. The curved external shell is pressed wood, veneered or entirely upholstered, and the seat lifts by itself (automatic tip-up), its hinge points made of noise-damping nylon. Below the seat sits a wooden or completely upholstered panel. Covers come in fabric, velvet or Pelle Frau® leather (Color System), made by hand with invisible riveting. Rows stand on cast aluminium feet finished with scratchproof, shock-resistant epoxy powder paint.
Story
Created for the Parco della Musica
Poltrona Frau credits the RP01 to Renzo Piano of the Renzo Piano Building Workshop and says he created it for Rome's Parco della Musica. In the company's words, the chair adapts to different technical requirements. The shell is offered veneered or fully upholstered, and the underseat as a wooden or an upholstered panel.
The designer
The page presents Renzo Piano as an architect from Genoa who graduated from the Politecnico di Milano in 1964 and later taught there. It lists the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the AIA Gold Medal, the Kyoto Prize and the Sonning Prize among his honours, and notes that he founded Piano & Rogers Architects in 1971 with Richard Rogers, a firm that won the competition for the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
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