ALLUNAGGIO

ALLUNAGGIO

Chair

1966 Design: Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni

(1966), 1980 Production: A/P (prototype 1966), Zanotta

This outdoor seat celebrates on of the most important events in the conquest of space (from the early Sixties to the 1969 moon landing), the exploration of the Moon, the Earth’s only satellite, by means of probes.

Allunaggio, moon-landing, is composed of three slender legs, curved steel tubes (22 mm diameter) supporting a pressed metal seat enamelled grass green; the weight is evenly distributed on the ground by means of three elastic, natural coloured, disks.

The considerable distance from the point where the legs touch ground to the barycentre of the seat (152x74 cm base), the relatively low height of the seat (42.5 cm) and the materials employed all confer stability, lightness and strength to the object; when it is on a lawn, the set of the legs allows an airflow for the grass to grow.

It remained a prototype until 1980.