Lady

Designed in 1951,
the Lady armchair Architect, designer and university lecturer, Marco Zanuso (1916-2001)
won the gold medal was one of the leading interpreters of the Modern Movement.
at the IX Milan
Triennale in the same Trained at the Polytechnic University of Milan and, in the immediate
year. post-war years, co-editor of the Domus magazine with Ernesto N. Ro-
gers, he was awarded the Medaglia d’oro and the Gran Premio at the
The armchair Milan Triennale (VIII, IX, X, XI and XIII editions), and won five Compassi
stands as a modern d’Oro between 1956 and 1985.
icon, the fruit of
innovation that Zanuso was one of the first designers in Italy to take an interest in the
turned the traditional problems of product industrialisation, going beyond aesthetic issues to
manufacturing incorporate technological, industrial, distribution and communication
technique for making variables.
armchairs and sofas
on its head, with each
part manufactured
separately and then
assembled; seat, backrests and
sides with different padding densi-
ties depending
on the support
required by the
pressure exerted
by the body.

Marco Zanuso
1916—2001