Missoni Armchairs and Artek

Presented at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan chair 400 designed by Alvar Aalto (Better known as the Tank Chair) of Artek fabric Missoni is a valuable experiment that connects the brand of ‘home Italian fashion Finnish company that is celebrating its 75th anniversary by asking the designers and artists to reinterpret their armchairs in a program called Dress the chair, dressing chair. The chair, but also a stool, are covered with different fabrics Missoni, Missoni Kew, Missoni Leigh and Chevron.

The seat 400, designed by Alvar Aalto and better known as the Tank, is one of the milestones in furniture design in 1900. Alvar Aalto created the tank in 1936 on commission for the Triennale di Milano. This armchair attracted massive attention and was also awarded during the fair. The chair tank was something different than the previous cabinet of Alvar Aalto, both for appearance and for its assumptions.

The resistant seat and wide armrests as well as making the chair extremely comfortable are the elements that give the chair its distinctive look, reminiscent of a tank.

The light seen in the first chairs of Alvar Aalto had now given way to a more solid and the center of gravity was lowered but the wood used, the birch plywood, With its light color and sinuous curves, made this chair, one of the most popular projects, becoming a longseller of Artek.