Designer: Michele De Lucchi
Maker: Memphis Milano - Italy
Year: 1983
Size: H 900 x D 500 x W 500 - seat height 560
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Frame has been re-powdercoated and is immaculate. Original armrests, backrests and set show wear inline with age, slight scuffing. Reach out for detailed images. Orignal 1983 logo still clear and visible.
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The ‘First’ Chair is a characteristic design of the Memphis movement, founded by Michele De Lucchi and Ettore Sottsass. The Memphis designers explored geometric forms and colour in their response to the more rational, unemotional, functionalist approach to design at the time.
Sitting on the boundaries of both furniture and sculpture, the First chair has remained an icon since it’s creation in 1983. In a playful way, the Chairs geometric form mimics the sitter. A flat disc seat in black wood, edged in tubular metal, rests on four metal legs. A circular hoop rises from the front legs, tilting backward and and supporting both a blue disc at the top of the hoop, serving as a backrest, and two black spheres that serve as armrests.
Designer: Michele De Lucchi
Maker: Memphis Milano - Italy
Year: 1983
Size: H 900 x D 500 x W 500 - seat height 560
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Frame has been re-powdercoated and is immaculate. Original armrests, backrests and set show wear inline with age, slight scuffing. Reach out for detailed images. Orignal 1983 logo still clear and visible.
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The ‘First’ Chair is a characteristic design of the Memphis movement, founded by Michele De Lucchi and Ettore Sottsass. The Memphis designers explored geometric forms and colour in their response to the more rational, unemotional, functionalist approach to design at the time.
Sitting on the boundaries of both furniture and sculpture, the First chair has remained an icon since it’s creation in 1983. In a playful way, the Chairs geometric form mimics the sitter. A flat disc seat in black wood, edged in tubular metal, rests on four metal legs. A circular hoop rises from the front legs, tilting backward and and supporting both a blue disc at the top of the hoop, serving as a backrest, and two black spheres that serve as armrests.
