1991 Chip Chair by Carlo Mo for Tecno in Ebonized Oak and Enameled Steel
1991 Chip Chair by Carlo Mo for Tecno in Ebonized Oak and Enameled Steel
1991 Chip Chair by Carlo Mo for Tecno in Ebonized Oak and Enameled Steel
1991 Chip Chair by Carlo Mo for Tecno in Ebonized Oak and Enameled Steel
1991 Chip Chair by Carlo Mo for Tecno in Ebonized Oak and Enameled Steel
1991 Chip Chair by Carlo Mo for Tecno in Ebonized Oak and Enameled Steel
1991 Chip Chair by Carlo Mo for Tecno in Ebonized Oak and Enameled Steel
1991 Chip Chair by Carlo Mo for Tecno in Ebonized Oak and Enameled Steel
1991 Chip Chair by Carlo Mo for Tecno in Ebonized Oak and Enameled Steel
1991 Chip Chair by Carlo Mo for Tecno in Ebonized Oak and Enameled Steel
1991 Chip Chair by Carlo Mo for Tecno in Ebonized Oak and Enameled Steel
1991 Chip Chair by Carlo Mo for Tecno in Ebonized Oak and Enameled Steel
1991 Chip Chair by Carlo Mo for Tecno in Ebonized Oak and Enameled Steel

1991 Chip Chair by Carlo Mo for Tecno in Ebonized Oak and Enameled Steel

Regular price $ 4,500

This is a Chip Chair, designed by Carlo Mo for Tecno in 1965. This particular example hails from 1991, when Tecno relaunched the design in a very limited quantity. This avant-garde lounge chair (based on West-African and Caribbean indigenous designs) was created from ebonized oak, and has an enameled steel base. It was manufactured in Italy, designed at the Tecno Design Center, a laboratory where Osvaldo Borsani developed and produced products with notable European designers of the time.

The chair measures 25.6 inches long, 6.5 inches wide, and 29.1 inches high. It has a seat height of 1.97 inches. This lounge chair is in very good to excellent condition with very light wear. Please see photos. It came from a notable estate in Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia. The previous owners were collectors of numerous important art objects and furnishings from the 1980s and 1990s.

1991 Chip Chair by Carlo Mo for Tecno in Ebonized Oak and Enameled Steel
1991 Chip Chair by Carlo Mo for Tecno in Ebonized Oak and Enameled Steel
1991 Chip Chair by Carlo Mo for Tecno in Ebonized Oak and Enameled Steel
1991 Chip Chair by Carlo Mo for Tecno in Ebonized Oak and Enameled Steel
1991 Chip Chair by Carlo Mo for Tecno in Ebonized Oak and Enameled Steel
1991 Chip Chair by Carlo Mo for Tecno in Ebonized Oak and Enameled Steel
1991 Chip Chair by Carlo Mo for Tecno in Ebonized Oak and Enameled Steel
1991 Chip Chair by Carlo Mo for Tecno in Ebonized Oak and Enameled Steel
1991 Chip Chair by Carlo Mo for Tecno in Ebonized Oak and Enameled Steel
1991 Chip Chair by Carlo Mo for Tecno in Ebonized Oak and Enameled Steel
1991 Chip Chair by Carlo Mo for Tecno in Ebonized Oak and Enameled Steel