Set of Two Armchairs
Set of two armchairs style "Cingo"
Chrome plated metal frame and original white leather
Signed at the base
DESIGNER Ross Littell (1924-2000)
MANUFACTURER De Padova
COUNTRY USA / Italy
DATE 1974
DIMENSIONS H. 79 x W. 51 x L. 56 /cm
SPECIAL NOTE
Ross Littell was an American textile and furniture designer who, in the 1950's, worked mostly for Knoll and and Herman Miller. In the 1960's he moved to Europe where he collaborated with local manufacturers such as De Padova. His three-legged T-chair, designed in 1952 with William Katavolos and Douglas Kelley, is part of the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, along with the Art Institute of Chicago.
