Tacchini - T'22 Collection

Sancarlo (Armchair),

base T07 Black

W 62,5 D 92 H 118 cm

262

H seat 45 cm

Quartier (Ottoman)

Sancarlo

The Sancarlo armchair is a treatise on statics, ergonomics, function

and geometry. Achille Castiglioni has taken up again the idea of the

Sanluca, designed a few decades earlier with his brother Pier Giacomo.

The result is the breaking-down of the seat into a series of cushions

which curve to each part of the body they have to support. Sancarlo

is a reissue of a classic designed by Achille Castiglioni. Both versions,

armchair and sofa, are composed of a simple, linear, curved tubular

frame, on which a number of upholstered cushions are positioned.

A ground-breaking concept when it was first presented, it has now been

made even more effective with differentiated foam filling, in which

the density varies according to the region of the body to be supported.

Full of character, Sancarlo is a veritable icon of 20th-century design.

Der Sessel Sancarlo ist ein Statement, das für Statik, Ergonomie,

Funktion und Geometrie steht. Achille Castiglioni greift die Idee des

Sessels Sanluca wieder auf, den er vor einigen Jahrzehnten gemeinsam

mit seinem Bruder Pier Giacomo entworfen hat. Ergebnis ist das Zerlegen

der Sitzfläche in eine Reihe von Kissen, die mit ihren Rundungen den

verschiedenen Körperteilen Halt bieten. Sancarlo ist die Neuauflage eines

Design-Klassikers von Achille Castiglioni. Das Sitzmöbel, in den Ausfüh-

rungen als Fauteuil und Sofa, besteht aus einer schlichten, linearen

Struktur aus gebogenem Metallrohr, in die Polsterungen verschiedener

Volumen eingesetzt werden. Ein supermodernes Design für die damalige

Zeit, das heute durch differenzierte Polsterungen, die je nach dem zu

stützenden Körperteil unterschiedliche Härten aufweisen, noch wirkungs-

voller ist. Sancarlo ist ein charakterstarkes Sitzmöbel und eine Stilikone

des 20. Jahrhunderts.

Le fauteuil Sancarlo est un traité de statique, d’ergonomie,

de fonction et de géométrie. Achille Castiglioni reprend l’idée du modèle

Sanluca, conçu quelques décennies plus tôt avec son frère Pier Giacomo.

Il en résulte une déstructuration du siège en une série de coussins incur-

vés qui s’offrent à chacune des parties du corps qu’ils devront soutenir.

Sancarlo est la réédition d’un classique signé par Achille Castiglioni.

Le siège, dans les deux versions fauteuil et canapé, est constitué d’une

structure simple et linéaire en tube cintré, sur laquelle sont positionnés

les volumes rembourrés. Un concept à l’avant-garde pour l’époque où il

fut présenté, rendu encore plus efficace aujourd’hui par les rembourrages

différenciés, qui changent de densité en fonction de la zone du corps

qu’ils doivent soutenir. Création d’une grande personnalité, Sancarlo

est une véritable icône du design du XXe siècle.

Achille Castiglioni

The hero of Italian design, Achille Castiglioni, along

with his brothers Pier Giacomo and Livio, was able

to find irony and beauty into the simplicity of everyday

life. From the simplest electrical switches to the

most iconic project of modern design, Castiglioni

brothers transformed their uncontrollable curiosity

in a series of timeless pieces. Castiglioni was born

on 16 February 1918 in Milan, in Lombardy in northern

Italy. He was the third son of the sculptor Giannino

Castiglioni and his wife Livia Bolla. When the War was

over, Castiglioni joined the architectural design practice

that his brothers Livio and Pier Giacomo had started

with Luigi Caccia Dominioni in 1938. Livio Castiglioni

left the practice in 1952. From then until Pier Giacomo

died in 1968, he and Achille worked as a team.

Achille believed in experimentation; his method was

to always start from scratch, stick to common sense,

know the end goal and the means to achieve it.

Technical information

Armchair, Sofa ↪ p.487