Carlo Ratti Dining Room Chairs

Set of four Lulli dining chairs with black painted steel legs, back, and seat in curved and shaped veneered wood, designed by Carlo Ratti for ILC Lissone in 1950s. In Italy, at th...

Set of 6 Italian Designer chairs from the 1950s by Carlo Ratti Boomerang model in their original condition, iron legs and finished in brass, or...

Good vintage condition with normal trace of age and use for this set of six dining chairs designed by Carlo Ratti and produced in Italy during the 50s. Made from wood, metal and beau...

We fully restored this set by adding new small pieces of veneer (where needed) to all the chairs and lacquering them three times. More than 10% of the veneer had to be replaced. The ...

Set of four Lulli dining chairs with black painted steel legs, back, and seat in curved and shaped veneered wood, designed by Carlo Ratti for ILC Lissone in 1950s. In Italy, at the beginning of the XX century, industries of curved solid wood arose under license of Michael Thonet, and through the International Exhibitions the processing of curved wood became more and more widespread. The Expo of the first decade was also attended by the wood manufacturers of Monza, while in 1905 Otto Helzer, in Switzerland, patented wooden structures in curved laminated, whose strength was equivalent to those in steel. The Ratti brothers of Monza took their cue from the solid wood laminate to create furniture that, instead of wooden elements, used sheets of wood. The brothers Ratti, Carlo and Mario, also began to follow the young artistic avant-gardes (cubism, futurism and abstractionism). The mastery of wooden sculpture influenced Carlo in the design and realization of furniture of fine neo-plastic artistic workmanship and decò, receiving honors from the Prince of Piedmont Umberto di Savoia. In 1919, in Milan, the first Lombard Exhibition of Decorative Arts was set up (later to become the Triennale) and the Ratti brothers exhibited their furniture in solid wood but also in curved panel with a new system of curvature, the one in Telo. The canvas system was developed by the Ratti brothers with the help of a friend, Cesare Cantù. They developed an elastomer bag in which the mould was inserted with the panel to be bent and, closing it with clamps, the air inside was removed, thus making the panel adhere to the mould. Carlo and Mario found in the Telo system a means by which they could make objects and furniture in the three spatial directions with large surface curvatures, without limits of thickness and minimum radii of curvature. In 1921 in Stuttgart the first Salone del Mobile was inaugurated and the Fratelli Ratti of Monza made itself known internationally by presenting solid wood furniture and also furniture in load-bearing plywood, flanked by furniture with framed and interchangeable covers. The Expo became meeting places to verify and present the novelties in the furniture and industrialization sector and, with the development of Industrial Design, the first architects joined in the design of the furniture industries. The Ratti Brothers, in the various international and national exhibitions, also presented incredible objects in their realization with the system in Telo. After 1930 Carlo and Mario produced many containers for radio and folding chairs for cinema but in 1939 they divided and in Monza Mario remained who, with his sons Antonio and Angela, formed the Società Compensati Curvi...

Set of four Carlo Ratti chairs. These chairs were made in the 1960's in Italy. They were produced by Legni Curva. They feature a plywood shell with a black metal base. ...

Set of four beautifully designed lacquered bentwood chairs supported by a black metallic structure. A wonderful Italian 1950s production by the prolific designer Carlo Ratti. Dimens...

Set of six chairs designed by Carlo Ratti. Black lacquered metallic structure, seat and back in teak wood.

Set of four dining chairs in wood and painted metal, designed by Carlo Ratti, 1950s, Italy.   

Beautiful elegant set of six dining chairs designed by Carlo Ratti and manufactured by Lissoni, Italy, 1950. These chairs have a teak plywood seat and black lacquered metal legs. The...

Very nice set of dining chairs designed by Carlo Ratti, manufactured by Legni Curva, Italy 1950. These chairs have a solid metal frame, black lacquered. They have some kind of green ...

Set of six chairs designed by Carlo Ratti. Black lacquered metallic structure, seat and back in teak wood.