Big Mama UP Chair in Black by Gaetano Pesce for B&B Italia, Italy c.2000
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Big Mama UP Chair in Black by Gaetano Pesce for B&B Italia, Italy c.2000 <p>Chair - H: 103cm W: 120cm D: 130cm Seat height: 42cm</p><p>Ottoman - 57cm diameter</p><p>In 1968 when Gaetano Pesce began experimenting at his Paris
Chair - H: 103cm W: 120cm D: 130cm Seat height: 42cmOttoman - 57cm diameterIn 1968 when Gaetano Pesce began experimenting at his Paris atelier with vacuum-packing the hippest material of the moment: polyurethane. Soon he’d developed a gravity-defying model: a four-inch-thick disk that, when removed from its PVC envelope, would rise from the floor into a cushy armchair. Fittingly, he named it Up. The form that emerged was no typical seat. Its bulbous shape, inspired by silhouettes of ancient fertility goddesses and accompanied by an ottoman, was rife with meaning.
Gaetano Pesce UP5 armchair with its UP6 footstool, known as Big
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Big Mama Up Chair By Gaetano Pesce For B&B Italia, Italy, circa
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Perfectly finished: the La Mamma Up5 armchair and Up6 footstool by B & B Italia in a lively striped pattern. The designer Gaetano Pesce is everything
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La Mamma Up5 and UP6 Chair Series UP2000 B&B Italia
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