Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Plia Folding Chair

Preferred Title: 
Plia Folding Chair
Alternate Title: 
Chaise pliante Plia
Image View: 
Overall view, folded and hung on the wall
Creator: 
Giancarlo Piretti (Italian designer, born 1940)
Location: 
repository: Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, Île-de-France, France) AM 2011-DEP 8
Location Note: 
Place Georges-Pompidou
GPS: 
+48.860653+2.352411
Date: 
1969 (design)
Cultural Context: 
Italian
Style Period: 
Twentieth century
Work Type 1: 
Plia folding chair
Classification: 
furnishings
Material: 
chromed tubular steel; "Cellidor" transparent plastic; aluminum disc hinge
Technique: 
metalworking; modeling (forming)
Measurements: 
75 cm (height) x 47 cm (width) x 49 cm (depth)
Description: 
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/)
Collection: 
Archivision Addition Module Nine
Identifier: 
8A1-PIRETTI-CPP-A01
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.