PIGRECO CHAIR . BY TOBIA SCARPA . LAQUERED EDITION

PIGRECO CHAIR . BY TOBIA SCARPA . LAQUERED EDITION

14.550,00 DKK


MEET THE PIGRECO DINING CHAIR . DESIGNED IN 1959.

 'I wanted to create a sense of space,’ said Scarpa . The chair’s concept, Scarpa explains, is as complicated as it is simple for the human mind to conceive: an essential combination of geometries and intersecting lines in perfect balance. Its silhouette demonstrates Scarpa’s approach to the piece of furniture as a miniature architecture, the influence of his studies visible throughout the design. ‘Now I look at it and think, in the field of chairs, what else is left to be invented,’ he said when looking back at his design. ‘This one is more than enough.’

AT SALONE DE MOBILE IN MILAN 2025, Tacchini introduced a new edition.  A white or dark green piano laquered version . As the result of a collaboration with Scarpa himself, who, reflecting on this item many years later, finds the elegance of the relationship between its elements unchanged, but with a new layer of finish, the laquer. The wooden structure is also available in, Canaletto walnut and Ash wood 

 

 


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'I wanted to create a sense of space,’ says Scarpa of his original design for the Pigreco chair. He chose a triangle as the base of the chair for its ‘dynamic’ nature, and the shape can be found as the supporting structure under the seat. However, he notes, the triangle had an ‘integral defect’ and to ensure the chair’s stability, he played with the concept of a four-legged chair, experimenting with geometry to achieve a piece that consists in intersecting triangular and semi-circular shapes. The defining element of the design are the back ‘sister legs’, as he called them, separated by a narrow gap and united through an ingenious wooden joint, that offers structural strength to the chair. The low backrest is shaped in Scarpa’s words, like a big horn and the semi-circular seat is a flat cushion, upholstered in leather or textile.