Luisa Armchair

The Luisa armchair is a time­less piece, the outcome of skill, both in terms of tech­nique and of mate­ri­als. The frame repre­sents a synthe­sis where the seat and the back are two geomet­ric planes suspended on an under­stated wood struc­ture, the sides remi­nis­cent of trestles. 

The small armchair is the fruit of a fifteen-year process of explo­ration, focused on creat­ing an arche­type of the basic elements of a chair, and its poten­tial uses within the home. An idea-based design, where Franco Albini expressed the concept of ​“substance in form”, increas­ing the volume of the wooden parts where they join with others. Follow­ing various enhance­ments, the defin­i­tive version of the chair was awarded the Compasso D’Oro prize by the Italian Indus­trial Design Asso­ci­a­tion (Asso­ci­azione per il Disegno Industriale/​ADI).