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

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Mid-Century amazing pair of armchairs in rattan and bamboo bent in the style of Tito Agnoli. Made in Italy in … Read more Mid-Century amazing pair of armchairs in rattan and bamboo bent in the style of Tito Agnoli. 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, 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. See less