144. Taichiro Nakai
unknown
Rare set of three armchairs, designed for the ‘Prima Mostra Selettiva’, Cantù, circa 1955 Cherry wood, fabric. Each: 81.6 x 63.5 x 72.2 cm (32 1/8 x 25 x 28 3/8 in.) Manufactured by La Permanente Mobili, Cantù, Italy. Estimate £10,000-15,000 $13,100-19,600 €11,200-16,900 Provenance Private collection, Turin Literature ‘Rassegna Domus’, Domus, no. 313, December 1955, p. 33 Prima mostra selettiva, Concorso internazionale del mobile, exh. cat., Cantù, 1955, p. XXVII Roberto Aloi, Mobili Tipo: Presentazione Dell’Arch. Agnoldomenico Pica, Milan, 1956, p. 108 Tiziano Casartelli, La Selettiva del Mobile 1955-1975, Como, 2016, pp. 23, 42
The present model was exhibited at ‘La Mostra Selettiva del Mobile’, Galleria Mobili d’Arte, Cantù, 17 September-5 October 1955.
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