Sacco

After fifty years, what is there left to write about one of the icons of Italian design that, still today, communicates the absolute strength of ideas – that is, when such strength really exists? Nowhere, in the written history of design, is this object not positioned among the top ten icons that changed the perspective of our beloved field forever and for everyone. Perhaps we can add that – beyond the desecrating gesture of filling a sack (Sacco) with polystyrene balls in order to transform it into the most informal, most versatile, most irreverent, most freeing, most soft, most ergonomic and ‘most’ everything chair – there is no defined shape. It is for this very reason that it has survived, untouched by time, through seasons, fashions and every ‘ism’ imaginable, preserving the greatest value of all: being a concept that well beyond the seasons, arriving undamaged to the present day, is ready to be adapted into versions for children and teenagers, because to encourage smiles and fun even while sitting in an ‘armchair’ is not a luxury reserved for adults.

Awards: Selezione Compasso d’Oro 1970 - Premio BIO 5 Ljubljana 1973 - Compasso d'oro alla carriera 2020.

Collection: The Museum of Modern Art, New York - Israel Museum, Jerusalem - Uméleckoprumyslové Muzeum, Praha - Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin -Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf - Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Köln - Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris - The Saint Louis Art Museum - Museo del Design 1880-1980, Milano - Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg - Denver Art Museum - Dallas Museum of Art - Fondazione Triennale Design Museum, Milano - Tel Aviv Museum of Art - Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein - Musée National d' Art Moderne, Paris - Thessaloniki Design Museum, Saloniki - Gustav Lübcke Museum, Hamm - Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain, Dunkerque - LAB Museo del Design, fondazione Anna Querci, Calenzano - Powerhouse Museum, Sydney - Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Wien - Design Museum, Gent - Philadelphia Museum of Art -Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Bordeaux - Cité de l'Architecture & du Patrimoine, Paris - National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne - Musée de la ville de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Montigny-le-Bretonneux - Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York - Museo tattile statale Omero, Ancona - ADI Design Museo, Milano.

Models and Dimensions:

- 278 SACCO ANATOMICAL EASY CHAIR - Width 54 x depth 54 x height 59 cm

- 279 SACCO ANATOMICAL EASY CHAIR - Width 68 x depth 68 x height 63 cm

- 280 SACCO ANATOMICAL EASY CHAIR - Width 80 x depth 80 x height 68 cm