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PIERLUIGI CERRI (Orta San Giulio, 1939) for Poltrona Frau. Three-seater sofa "Ouverture", early 1980s. Steel structure and white leather upholstery. Measurements: 80 x 260 x 85 cm; 45 cm (seat height). The Ouverture sofa is one of Pierluigi Cerri's most popular designs for Poltrona Frau. It is distinguished by its T-shaped beam without welds, which is joined together by aluminum profiles in a sophisticated interlocking game. A visual interplay of circular holes gives the piece of furniture its personality. Poltrona Frau, the editor, says "Ouverture is an exemplary prototype of that markedly technological taste destined to revolutionize furnishings, with industrial and metropolitan reminiscences". An indefatigable creator, Pierluigi Cerri studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano. In 1974 he was a founding partner of Gregotti Associati. Member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale, in 1976 he is also the Image Director of the Venice Biennale. He was director of the magazines Casabella and Rassegna. He has designed installations in the most important international museums (IDZ in Berlin, Palazzo della Promotrice delle Belle Arti in Turin, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Palazzo a Vela in Turin, Design Zentrum in Stuttgart and Berlin, Sogetsu Kaikan in Tokyo, Lingotto in Turin, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo in Madrid, Accademia di Brera in Milan, Science Museum in London, Forte del Belvedere in Florence, Kunst-und Austellungshalle in Bonn, Palazzo Grassi in Venice, Palazzo Reale in Milan, Nationalgalerie in Berlin, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris and the Triennale in Milan). He has worked with image design for brands such as Prada, Ferrari Auto, Lingotto, Pitti Immagine, Unifor, iGuzzini and Fratelli Guzzini, Palazzo Grassi, Pirelli and Saras. He has designed objects for Unifor, B&B Italia, Poltrona Frau, Fontana Arte, Arflex, Molteni & C. and Fusital, and has designed sets for RAI3 and Rai 2. In 1998, Pierluigi Cerri and Alessandro Colombo set up the Cerri & Associati studio.
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PIERLUIGI CERRI (Orta San Giulio, 1939) for Poltrona Frau.
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