Preferred Title:
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Plia Folding Chair
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Alternate Title:
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Chaise pliante Plia
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Image View:
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Overall view, folded and hung on the wall
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Creator:
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Giancarlo Piretti (Italian designer, born 1940)
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Location:
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repository: Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, Île-de-France, France) AM 2011-DEP 8
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Location Note:
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Place Georges-Pompidou
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GPS:
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+48.860653+2.352411
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Date:
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1969 (design)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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Plia folding chair
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Classification:
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furnishings
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Material:
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chromed tubular steel; "Cellidor" transparent plastic; aluminum disc hinge
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Technique:
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metalworking; modeling (forming)
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Measurements:
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75 cm (height) x 47 cm (width) x 49 cm (depth)
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Description:
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The "Plia folding chair" is now a term (used in AAT) for chairs characterized as a folding chair that could be easily stacked and opened with one hand, composed of a steel or aluminum frame with a press-molded transparent plastic backrest and seat. One innovation was the development of a "3-Disc hinge" for the folding mechanism. The dimensions of this chair folded are 89 x 47 x 4.5 cm. Plia was commercially very successful; from 1969, when production began, more than seven million units were sold. It is manufactured by Castelli, Italy. (Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus; http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Nine
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Identifier:
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8A1-PIRETTI-CPP-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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