Revolutionary for its time, the Bardi's Bowl Chair transformed the way people sat. As opposed to the prevailing angular forms and upright chairs, Lina Bo Bardi introduced rounder shapes encouraging a natural and more relaxed posture. To create the Bowl Chair, Arper engaged in intensive dialogues with the Institute Lina Bo e P.M. Bardi evaluating the original iterations for size, interior structure, upholstery detailing - down to the quality and size of the stitching - and softness of the seat. Every detail, down to the small leather covers placed around the round steel frame of the chair to hold it in place, was carefully reinterpreted.
Arper explored different modes of interpretation of color for this touchstone of Brazilian modernist design.
Designed in 1951 in Bo Bardi’s adopted home of Brazil, the Bowl Chair is an icon of Lina Bo Bardi’s adaptive style. Balancing the worlds of industrialized fabrication and the individualized object, Bo Bardi envisioned the Bowl Chair as flexible in structure while universal and essential in form. But, as with all of Bo Bardi’s designs, the ultimate emphasis remains on the human interaction with the object.
In partnership with the Instituto Lina Bo e P.M. Bardi in São Paulo, we produced the Bardi’s Bowl Chair in a limited edition of 500 pieces.
Arper celebrates the special Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in memoriam awarded to Lina Bo Bardi during the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, with two new fabric...
“In doing this, we wish to give the Bowl Chair and Lina’s way of thinking a future. The limited edition creates a link between the past and the future” — Claudio Feltrin....
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