Sella
Designed in 1957, the Sella stool stands as one of the most intellectually charged objects in postwar Italian design. Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni borrowed a bicycle saddle and mounted it on a slender steel stem rising from a cast iron base, turning the familiar into the extraordinary.
The gesture was not ironic for its own sake. The Castiglionis were deeply interested in the readymade as a design method, finding in everyday objects a precision and ergonomic intelligence that conventional furniture rarely matched. Sella was conceived for the intermittent posture of a phone call, a moment of semi-rest that falls between sitting and standing.
- Lacquered bicycle saddle seat
- Chromed or painted steel stem
- Weighted cast iron base for stability
- Originally produced by Zanotta in 1983, following earlier limited editions
Held in the permanent collections of MoMA and the Triennale di Milano, Sella is a piece that operates simultaneously as furniture and as critique, proof that the distance between art and design can be measured in a single, decisive idea.
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Sella
Designed in 1957, the Sella stool stands as one of the most intellectually charged objects in postwar Italian design. Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni borrowed a bicycle saddle and mounted it on a slender steel stem rising from a cast iron base, turning the familiar into the extraordinary.
The gesture was not ironic for its own sake. The Castiglionis were deeply interested in the readymade as a design method, finding in everyday objects a precision and ergonomic intelligence that conventional furniture rarely matched. Sella was conceived for the intermittent posture of a phone call, a moment of semi-rest that falls between sitting and standing.
- Lacquered bicycle saddle seat
- Chromed or painted steel stem
- Weighted cast iron base for stability
- Originally produced by Zanotta in 1983, following earlier limited editions
Held in the permanent collections of MoMA and the Triennale di Milano, Sella is a piece that operates simultaneously as furniture and as critique, proof that the distance between art and design can be measured in a single, decisive idea.
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Designed in 1957, the Sella stool stands as one of the most intellectually charged objects in postwar Italian design. Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni borrowed a bicycle saddle and mounted it on a slender steel stem rising from a cast iron base, turning the familiar into the extraordinary.
The gesture was not ironic for its own sake. The Castiglionis were deeply interested in the readymade as a design method, finding in everyday objects a precision and ergonomic intelligence that conventional furniture rarely matched. Sella was conceived for the intermittent posture of a phone call, a moment of semi-rest that falls between sitting and standing.
- Lacquered bicycle saddle seat
- Chromed or painted steel stem
- Weighted cast iron base for stability
- Originally produced by Zanotta in 1983, following earlier limited editions
Held in the permanent collections of MoMA and the Triennale di Milano, Sella is a piece that operates simultaneously as furniture and as critique, proof that the distance between art and design can be measured in a single, decisive idea.
