"Safari" seating environment

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ARCHIZOOM ASSOCIATI (Active 1966-1974)
"Safari" seating environment
designed 1968, limited serial production by Poltronova, four white- lacquered fibreglass sections, each with scalloped seating areas, upholstered in padded synthetic leopard-skin.
100 x 84 x 23¾in. ( 254 x 214 x 60cm )

Literature

Emilio Ambasz, ed. Italy: The New Domestic Landscape, MoMA, New York, 1972 (p. 108, similar example ilustrated)
Peter Fiell, Modern Furniture Classics Since 1945, London, 1984 (p. 102, similar example illustrated)
Andrea Branzi, The Hot House: Italian New Wave Design, London, 1984 (p. 75, similar example illustrated)

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Lot Essay

The work of Archizoom Associati, the Florentine radical-design collaborative, is characterised by a corrosive humour aginst the perceived excesses of the modern consumer society. Through arichtectural immobility, and overt allusions to American kitsch design, the "Safari" challenges the participant's preconception of accepted form and purpose.

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