Image source: Cassina — Tre Pezzi Armchair
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Tre Pezzi Armchair
Wingback armchair by Franco Albini and Franca Helg, 1959, on a tubular steel frame; Cassina.
800 × 920 × 800 mm
1959
Official product information
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Description
Overview
Tre Pezzi is an armchair by Franco Albini, drawn with Franca Helg in 1959 according to the product sheet and produced by Cassina in 2009. The page calls it "the modern wingback armchair", its "generous, enveloping, upholstered shapes" blending minimalist concepts and the utmost comfort.
Construction
The frame is tubular steel, chrome-plated or painted. The sheet lists elastic belts under the seat, steel spiral springs in the headrest, cold-foamed polyurethane and resin-treated polyester fibre wadding paired with canvas, under a fabric or leather cover.
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Specifications
- Size: 80 cm wide, 80 cm deep, 92 cm high
- Frame: chrome-plated, or painted matte red (page); the sheet shows matt black and matt red
- Cover: 15 fabric ranges (195 colours) and 4 leather groups (55 colours) on the page
Story
A restatement of the bergère
The sheet describes Tre Pezzi as a contemporary restatement of the classic bergère, built from three parts: a deep curved seat, a ring-shaped back rest and a half-moon head-rest, each standing out independently.
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Scaffolding poles and a Milan handrail
The sheet says the tubular metal frame is cued on scaffolding poles, and that the sideways curve of the armrests recalls the handrails of the Milan underground, also designed by Albini and Helg. A photo caption on the sheet dates that handrail project to 1964.
More by Franco Albini
Cicognino Table
Franco Albini's three-legged "little stork" table, 1953, with one leg rising into a handle.
Cavalletto Table
Franco Albini's 1950 trestle table: ash or walnut frame braced by two burnished brass rods.
Infinito Bookcase
Free-standing double-sided bookcase by Franco Albini, 1956-57, on floor-to-ceiling uprights.
Albini Desk
Franco Albini's glass-topped pedestal desk on a chrome steel X-frame with a floating drawer pedestal
Collection
Cassina iMaestri Collection
Cassina's iMaestri Collection, begun in 1965 with Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand, since joined by Rietveld, Albini, Ponti and Eames.
