Ilmari Tapiovaara Italian Chairs - Set of 6

Found in Avignon, this set of six dining chairs is attributed to Ilmari Tapiovaara, the Finnish designer who produced a line of beechwood-framed sling chairs for La Permanente Mobili Cantù in Italy in the 1950s. Each chair is built on a wooden frame with rounded post tops and dowel joinery, and the seat and back are a single sling of canvas slung between the rails. The design comes from Tapiovaara's belief in honest, democratic furniture: simple materials, visible construction, nothing hidden and nothing wasted. The canvas is a soft natural cream, and the beech frames have the warm patina of seventy years of use. Sold as a set of six, these are the chairs for a dining table where the design does the talking and the meal does the rest.

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