- Product:
- Joe armchair
- Manufacturer:
- Dorotheum
- Architonic ID:
- 4101788
- Launched:
- 1970
- Country:
- Austria
- Category:
- Furnishings
- Address
- Telephone
- Website
Key facts
Product description
A Joe armchair, designed in by Paolo Lomazzi - Donato D‘Urbino - Jonathan De Pas for Poltronova, Montale, Pistoia, manufactured at a later period, moulded polyurethane foam covered with brown leather, with several impressed marks JOE/Made in Italy/Modell P 100, height 95 cm, length 175 cm, depth 100 cm, height of seat 43 cm.
Beautiful patination.
Moulded as a giant baseball glove, this chair is reminiscent of Pop Art sculptures such as by Claes Oldenburg. Named after the baseball legend Joe Di Maggio.
Literature: Design since 1945, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1983, page 68, pl. 43 - Italy: the New Domestic Landscape, The Museum of Modern Art, NY 1972, page 95 - A. Bangert, Italian Furniture Design, Cologne 1996, page 105 (prototype) - Ph. Garner, Sixties Design, Cologne 1996, page 157 (in white) - Ch. & P. Fiell, 1000 chairs, Cologne 1997, page 482.
Beautiful patination.
Moulded as a giant baseball glove, this chair is reminiscent of Pop Art sculptures such as by Claes Oldenburg. Named after the baseball legend Joe Di Maggio.
Literature: Design since 1945, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1983, page 68, pl. 43 - Italy: the New Domestic Landscape, The Museum of Modern Art, NY 1972, page 95 - A. Bangert, Italian Furniture Design, Cologne 1996, page 105 (prototype) - Ph. Garner, Sixties Design, Cologne 1996, page 157 (in white) - Ch. & P. Fiell, 1000 chairs, Cologne 1997, page 482.