Mid-Century Bamboo and Rattan Armchairs in the style of Tito Agnoli Style, Italy 1960s

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Mid-Century amazing pair of armchairs in rattan and bamboo bent in the style of Tito Agnoli for Bonacina. Made in … Read more Mid-Century amazing pair of armchairs in rattan and bamboo bent in the style of Tito Agnoli for Bonacina. Made in Italy in the 1960s. Bamboo / rattan has been polished by a professional restorer. Tito Agnoli was born in Lima, Peru, in 1931 into an Italian family. He returns to Italy after the war. Painter by training (he studied with Sironi), in 1949 he enrolled in the Faculty of Architecture, where he graduated in 1959 and was assistant to Gio Ponti and Cardo De Darli. However, already in the early 1950s he began an intense professional activity in the field of design. He designs, among others, for Arflex, Cinova, Lema, Matteo Grassi, Molteni, Montina, Oluce, Pierantonio Bonacina, Poltrona Frau, Schiffini, Ycami. Reputed several times at the Compasso d'Oro, in 1986 he won the gold medal at the Neocon in Chicago. He died in Milan in February 2012. Some pieces of him are kept in the permanent collection of the MoMA in New York. Leader in the production of this type of object, each piece by Bonacina is handcrafted by skilled craftsmen who, with care and experience, bend the reeds, weave and intertwine the marrow threads and synthetic materials, giving life to projects by architects and designers and implementing an international dissemination process. See less