Tre Pezzi Lounge Chair

Designed in 1959 by Franco Albini in collab­o­ra­tion with a long-time asso­ciate, Franca Helg, the Tre Pezzi Lounge was reis­sued by Cassina in 2009 as part of its I Maestri Collection. 

Tre Pezzi means ​“three pieces” in Italian. Indeed, the three uphol­stered elements that compose the struc­ture of the chair are all related visu­ally as vari­ants of the hemi­sphere. The lunette hori­zon­tal seating plane gently folds over the tubular steel frame at the front of the chair and is echoed by the gently flared hemi­spher­i­cal armrest that engulfs its perime­ter. A slightly concave lunette func­tions as the back­rest. All ​“three pieces” are held within a tubular steel frame that also gently curves, creat­ing wonder­ful visual synergy within the overall form.