Cab Armchair
Conceived in 1977, the Cab Armchair remains one of Mario Bellini's most considered contributions to Italian design. Its premise is deceptively simple: a tubular steel skeleton wrapped in a continuous skin of hand-stitched saddle leather, held taut by zippers concealed along the inner legs and beneath the seat.
There are no exposed bolts, no visible fasteners. Only the quiet confidence of a form that hides its own logic. The leather does not merely cover the chair - it becomes the chair, lending the Cab its characteristic softness of silhouette and a singular sense of wholeness that rewards close inspection.
Bellini approached the Cab the way a tailor approaches a suit: the outer shell is cut, stitched, and zipped into place over the frame, making structure and surface inseparable. The result is an object that reads as sculpture from a distance and as craft up close.
- Tubular steel internal frame
- Saddle leather outer shell secured by interior zippers
- No exposed hardware or external fasteners
- Designed by Mario Bellini for Cassina, 1977
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Cab Armchair
Conceived in 1977, the Cab Armchair remains one of Mario Bellini's most considered contributions to Italian design. Its premise is deceptively simple: a tubular steel skeleton wrapped in a continuous skin of hand-stitched saddle leather, held taut by zippers concealed along the inner legs and beneath the seat.
There are no exposed bolts, no visible fasteners. Only the quiet confidence of a form that hides its own logic. The leather does not merely cover the chair - it becomes the chair, lending the Cab its characteristic softness of silhouette and a singular sense of wholeness that rewards close inspection.
Bellini approached the Cab the way a tailor approaches a suit: the outer shell is cut, stitched, and zipped into place over the frame, making structure and surface inseparable. The result is an object that reads as sculpture from a distance and as craft up close.
- Tubular steel internal frame
- Saddle leather outer shell secured by interior zippers
- No exposed hardware or external fasteners
- Designed by Mario Bellini for Cassina, 1977
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Conceived in 1977, the Cab Armchair remains one of Mario Bellini's most considered contributions to Italian design. Its premise is deceptively simple: a tubular steel skeleton wrapped in a continuous skin of hand-stitched saddle leather, held taut by zippers concealed along the inner legs and beneath the seat.
There are no exposed bolts, no visible fasteners. Only the quiet confidence of a form that hides its own logic. The leather does not merely cover the chair - it becomes the chair, lending the Cab its characteristic softness of silhouette and a singular sense of wholeness that rewards close inspection.
Bellini approached the Cab the way a tailor approaches a suit: the outer shell is cut, stitched, and zipped into place over the frame, making structure and surface inseparable. The result is an object that reads as sculpture from a distance and as craft up close.
- Tubular steel internal frame
- Saddle leather outer shell secured by interior zippers
- No exposed hardware or external fasteners
- Designed by Mario Bellini for Cassina, 1977
