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Chair

Aldo Rossi Luca Meda, 1988

Teatro Open is a metal chair that evokes the design and details of the Teatro series. Its anodised aluminium frame comes in natural or black and the back and seat feature a harmonic steel mesh. The constituent parts of the structure are achieved by compression moulding a 2.5 mm aluminium sheet. The loose-knit mesh that forms the seat and the back is extremely sturdy. The chair weighs only 2.8 kg.

Design Aldo Rossi
Luca Meda,
1988

“The chair taps into a more complex system of traditions and figures than that of traditional metal chairs”

- Daniele Vitale

Design

Luca Meda

Luca Meda wrote an important chapter in Italian enterprise history. He contributed to the design culture of the Molteni Group with great passion and dedication. He was an example of a perfect symbiosis between creativity, business, art and industry. This is something of a paradox for a designer who loves drawing and uses a pencil more than any other tool to describe and reinvent reality. Since the late 70's Luca Meda was dedicated to the design of ranges. He created furniture which became icons. With Aldo Rossi he created the Piroscafo bookshelf, the Zim chairs and the Ho armchair, the Vivette armchair, the Primafila sofa, the 505 programme and the Pass system.

Complete biography
Luca Meda

"Simplicity is not good in itself, but there surely is a type of simplicity that comes from generations of work."

Luca Meda

Design

Aldo Rossi

Aldo Rossi (Milan, May 3, 1931 - Milan, September 4, 1997) was one of the greatest Italian architects of the 1980’s. His Molteni Group collaboration marked his passage from masterful architect to an industrial designer. He created models and furnishings for the Museum of Maastricht, the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and the reconstruction of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice. Aldo Rossi designed items that were destined to become icons of the 20th century.

Complete biography
Aldo Rossi

"Perhaps it is snobbery but the more I see the world, the more I feel being a citizen of it and the more I want to go back to the old way of things"

Aldo Rossi