Corner Armchair from the Serie 540 -

Amazing Corner seat from the 540 series designedin the late 60s by ico Parisi and produced by Fratelli Longhi-
Two-tone lacquered wood in black and white, cushion in the original fabric .

Domenico Parisi, known as Ico, was born in Palermo on September 23, 1916, to Sicilian parents . In 1925, the Parisi family moved to Como, where Ico, in 1936, graduated as a building surveyor and served an apprenticeship at the Terragni studio. Here, he had the opportunity to meet and associate with Como's architectural and artistic figures, such as Cattaneo, Lingeri, Radice, Rho, Persico, and Sartoris. Passionate about cinema and photography, he created, at Terragni's request, photographs of the Casa del Fascio. ged nt in 1943, he returned to Como and resumed his design work, focusing primarily on the creation of individual furnishings, exhibition installations, and interior architecture. He collaborated with Luisa Aiani, whom he married in 1947 and with whom he opened the studio La Ruota, a place of design but also a place of art, exhibition and culture. From the early 1950s, Parisi's activity became increasingly prolific in both architecture and design. He designed furniture, first as one-off pieces with artisans from Brianza and, later, for industrial production with companies such as Cassina, Brugnoli and numerous decorative art objects such as ceramics and glass. The late 1960s marked a precise turning point in his design research. With the Contenitoriumani, created in collaboration with the sculptor Francesco Somaini and presented for the first time at the Salone del Mobile in Milan in 1968, Parisi began a new path of investigation aimed at defining a utopian-existential idea of ​​living. The culmination of his design and existential research occurred between 1974 and 1976, with the “Operazione Arcevia”, approached in a choral and interdisciplinary way and aimed at the design of an entire community. The work was presented at the 76th Venice Biennale and subsequently exhibited at the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna in Rome (1979). From this strongly utopian socio-urban experience, subsequent graphic research derived, the theme of countless collective and solo exhibitions. He died in Como on 19 December 1996.