Marocca

chair

project

1987

production

1987

manufacturer

De Padova

description

Marocca is the NAME by which we recognise the chair present in all of the Veneto and Friuli Regions' trattorias and taverns and that Magistretti recovers, redesigning it completely: in the dimensions, materials, typology (he added an armchair version) and colours. "As it happens with vegetable soup, it is like finding again a model that reminds us of the same, magnificent, thing we saw in a grappa tavern on the bridge of Bassano," Magistretti said. Both the chair and the armchair have a structure in aniline-dyed beech and the seat in moulded beech, again aniline-dyed. «The careful elegance of proportions and volumes softens and updates the original features. In the past, for example in the Carimate series, attention for the anonymous objects of the past also acted to correct the excessive formal abstraction present in certain rationalist pursuits; now the search for authenticity runs counter to the gratuitous multiplication of formal inventions, typical of "postmodern" design». (Pasca, 1999, p. 153)

technical data

Wood. Aniline-dyed beech (tea or black); seat (tea, black, yellow, purple)

OTHER MEASUREMENT=

armchair 57,5x55x 77 H cm; chair 44x48x77 H cm

bibliography

F. Giorgi, Incontro con Vico Magistretti, in Gioia Casa, settembre 1987

W. Pagliero, Architettura come rappresentazione, in Casa Oggi 163-164, febbraio 1988

Incontro con Vico Magistretti, in Casa e giardino, settembre 1989

Promuovere rende, in Arredorama, giugno 1990

C. Marinato, La sedia secondo Vico Magistretti, in L'Etichetta 27, 1990

A. Mosca, I magnifici sette stili della casa in Italy, in L'Europeo 37, 13 settembre 1993

V. Pasca, Vico Magistretti: la ricostruzione della razionalità, in Interni 445, novembre 1994