Brand Spotlight - Episode XXXIII: Zanotta

Established in 1954, Zanotta is one of the recognized leaders in Italian industrial design since ever. Guided by the insight and wonderful entrepreneurship abilities of the founder, Aurelio Zanotta, starting from the 1960s it won and has held the international spotlight, thanks to its products: these are emblematic from the viewpoint of formal innovation as well as of technological research, aiming at a continuous evolution in the materials quality and in the production processes. The cultured and precious history of Zanotta is renewed in 2017 thanks to the union with Tecno, launching a common project for the two brands with the consequent strengthening of international synergies and commercial strategies under the leadership of Giuliano Mosconi, President and CEO of the two brands.

Quality of materials, always premium; of production technologies, invariably cutting edge. Then there’s quality of performance, encompassing a product’s safety and durability over time—which Zanotta evaluates via thorough endurance tests, assessing compliance with the strictest industry regulations as well as the brand’s own high standards. All manufacturing is exclusively done in Italy.

Genni

In 1982, among the re-editions, the Genni lounge chair - designed by Gabriele Mucchi in 1935 - entered the Zanotta catalogue. This item is striking in its formal elegance and surprising continuous modernity. It is made of bended and chromium-plated steel tube, a material symbol of the language of designers belonging to the movement of rationalist architecture, that at the beginning of last century had experienced the first new project opportunities offered by the nascent industry of modern furniture.

Sacco

After fifty years, what is there left to write about one of the icons of Italian design that, still today, communicates the absolute strength of ideas – that is, when such strength really exists? Nowhere, in the written history of design, is this object not positioned among the top ten icons that changed the perspective of our beloved field forever and for everyone.

Mezzadro

Mezzadro is a loud and clear message of freedom to define the domestic spatial environment. Low stool with chromed steel stem, and seat available in several finishes. Footrest in steam-treated beech, natural color.

Reale

Reale by Zanotta is an ultra modern trestle table, created with a compact, transparent skeleton embellished with a crystal top that seems to frame it.

Articulate and complex shapes, but which once understood can astonish owing to the constructive intelligence of a perfect mechanism where every element slots together, matching, twinlike with precision to the others, through a precise metal joint systems.

Lio

They are the extension of the lucky design of Lia and Lea chairs, reminding both their shape and constructional matrix: an elegant and outstanding side made of one single aluminum die-cast. In order to better fit the various use situations, home and contract, they are available in two different heights.

Arom

Arom is the latest armchair designed by Noé Duchaufour Lawrance for Zanotta. It provides the comfort of a classic seat, with a design inspired by the natural environment. Arom thanks to the leather and other uphoslsteries, will give your home a touch of importance and elegance.

Sciangai

The inspiration for Sciangai was the Chinese game where wooden sticks are held in the hand and then dropped onto a table. Just like the sticks are hand-held at the centre, Sciangai opens and closes thanks to a central metal washer. Astounding for its simplicity and originality, it won the Compasso d'Oro in 1979.

Basello

The Basello coffee table is an unusual creation, intriguing from both an aesthetic and functional point of view. A furnishing complement that can really bring a decorative value, and that portrays Achille Castiglioni's idea perfectly.

Allunaggio

Allunaggio (Moon landing), an outdoor chair designed by the two funambulist Castiglioni brothers, really looks like an object ‘landed’ from another planet and is unequalled in the history of design. An outdoor seat entirely in painted grass green aluminum, with polyethylene feet.

Sella

Irony and attention to the functions are the assumptions on which ‘jugglers’ Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni based their participation in the exhibition '“Shapes and colours in today’s homes” in Como. In 1957, a real racing bicycle saddle appeared, mounted on a stainless steel column supported by a heavy hemispherical base, capable of a ‘dynamic balance’. The object was designed as a ‘telephone stool’ but besides its clear reference to the world of bicycle races, it also recalls the milker’s stool, to be ‘fastened’ to the body with a waist belt, which is made of a very basic top and only one leg, forming the third element required for correct stability, in addition to the two legs of the person sitting on it.

William

The new range of William monobloc sofas, designed by the British Damian Williamson enters the Zanotta 2015 catalogue to complete the upholstered range that has been a best seller for the living area since 2010. This elegant sofa is upholstered and coated in thick leather. Sofa equipped with polished aluminum feet.

Albero

It was 1983 when Achille Castiglioni imagined a subtle presence, dynamic in its composition, flexible in its overall articulated design, whose scope was to host houseplants in their own pots, held up by round small plates (as if they were caring hands) displayed regularly along all the height of the structure. Horizontally, each item can be turned around by 120 degrees, so to better arrange plants of different sizes to better benefit from the daylight, on this little indoor ‘vertical wood’.

Designers

The most memorable designers for top to bottom: Bruno Munari, Gae Aulenti, Roberto Barbieri, Achille Castiglioni, Ettore Sottsass, Joe Colombo and the list goes on...

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