La grande muraglia armchair

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  LA GRANDE MURAGLIA (The Great Wall) 2023 was born from the desire to create a majestic seat, with the strength of the great architectural works that defy time. The idea took shape in 1981 from the collaboration between Mario Bellini and Piero Ambrogio Busnelli. Today, in the NEUTRA atelier, Emanuele Chicco Busnelli brings the project of LA GRANDE MURAGLIA 2023 to full completion thanks to skilled hands that have interpreted its vocation as domestic architecture. The collection consists of a sofa (two or three seaters) and an armchair, characterized by a classic Roman travertine structure (also available in other marble variants) that houses the enveloping padding of seats, armrests and backrests. The uprights and the frame are identified with the pillars and the architrave of an imaginary monumental building, in dialectical contrast with the soft and enveloping elements of the seat that welcome the body as in an embrace. The highly architectural connotation of the seating elements does not affect comfort and flexibility in use in any way. Bellini reinterprets the sculptural forms of The Great Wall, drawing today real ways of living the seats in a contemporary perspective, thinking of reading, rest, meditation. The seats of La Grande Muraglia 2023 are sculptural furnishings to be handed down from father to son and "impose themselves with authority, not with authority", according to the words of Bellini himself.