Giancarlo piretti table runners
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Giancarlo piretti table runners
Tables | by Giancarlo Piretti
Italian interior and industrial designer Giancarlo Piretti was born in 1940 in Bologna. He obtained his teaching degree in drawing at the Art Institute of Bologna (dates unknown), and continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna in 1960.
From 1963 until 1970, he taught interior design at the Art Institute of Bologna.
Sometime in the 1960s, Piretti also joined Italian design company Castelli as an interior designer, creating home furniture and office furnishings.
During his twelve years at Castelli, Piretti obtained numerous industrial patents for his designs, which were mostly chairs.
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Piretti’s work for Castelli garnered the company an international reputation in furniture design. His most well-known design is the plastic folding Plia Chair (1968), which has sold over seven million copies since 1969 and is still in production.
It won the BIO 5 distinction and the SMAUprize at the Ljubljana Biennial in 1971, Germany’s Gute