"Zanotta 50"
Opening May 17, 2004
Moss New York
On Monday May 17, 2004 Moss celebrated the fiftieth birthday of Zanotta with a special tribute to that company's long-time heroes, Achille and PierGiacomo Castiglioni. Our Anniversary exhibition honors the Castiglioni brothers' iconic Mezzadro stool, the quintessential "found object". Created in 1957 and first put into production by Zanotta in 1970, the sharecropper tractor seat is described by Stefano Casciani in his book, Furniture as Architecture, as "both the most successful formal provocation expressed by Italian design and, at the same time, the negation of the very idea of design". Moss commissioned 50 stools, each in a different spectacular color.
The stools were once proposed as stadium seating, an idea that was never realized. Our exhibit suggests what that might have looked like.
Moss New York
On Monday May 17, 2004 Moss celebrated the fiftieth birthday of Zanotta with a special tribute to that company's long-time heroes, Achille and PierGiacomo Castiglioni. Our Anniversary exhibition honors the Castiglioni brothers' iconic Mezzadro stool, the quintessential "found object". Created in 1957 and first put into production by Zanotta in 1970, the sharecropper tractor seat is described by Stefano Casciani in his book, Furniture as Architecture, as "both the most successful formal provocation expressed by Italian design and, at the same time, the negation of the very idea of design". Moss commissioned 50 stools, each in a different spectacular color.
The stools were once proposed as stadium seating, an idea that was never realized. Our exhibit suggests what that might have looked like.
