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| Designer | Piero Gatti, Cesare Paolini, Franco Teodoro |
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| Date | 1968 |
| Style / tradition | Radical design |
| Collection | MOMA · Museum of Modern Art, New York, Centre Pompidou, Victoria and Albert Museum, and 25 other contemporary art museums throughout the world |
The Sacco chair, also known as a bean bag chair, beanbag chair, or simply a beanbag, is a large fabric bag filled with polystyrene beans. It was designed by Piero Gatti, Cesare Paolini and Franco Teodoro in 1968. "Sacco" is Italian for "bag" or "sack". The product is an example of an anatomic chair as the shape of the object is set by the user.
The Sacco became "one of the icons of the Italian anti-design movement. Its complete flexibility and formlessness made it the perfect antidote to the static formalism of mainstream Italian furniture of the period,” as Penny Spark wrote in Italian Design – 1870 to the Present.[1][2]
Sacco was awarded the XXVI Premio Compasso d'Oro and is exhibited in the collections of the most important contemporary art museums throughout the world.[3]
The architect, Cesare Paolini, was born in Genoa and graduated from the Polytechnic University of Turin. Franco Teodoro and Piero Gatti, the designers, studied at the Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale per le Arti Grafiche e Fotografiche of Turin. They established their architecture firm in Turin in 1965.[4]
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