Mario Bellini

Milan 1935
Mario Bellini is internationally renowned as an architect and designer. He has received the Golden Compass Award eight times, and other prestigious architecture awards including the Medaglia d’oro awarded by the President of the Italian Republic for his contribution to furthering design and architecture in the world (2004) and the Ambrogino d’oro for civic merit awarded by the City of Milan (2011).
He has given talks in many of the world’s great cultural centres and was the editor of the magazine Domus from 1985 to 1991. He has 25 of his works in the permanent design collection of the New York Museum of Modern Art, which dedicated a personal retrospective to him in 1987. He has held countless art, design and architecture exhibitions over the years, both in Italy and abroad. Since the 1980’s, dedicating himself almost entirely to architecture, the manifold projects he has designed include the Portello Trade Fair district in Milan, the Villa Erba Exhibition Centre in Cernobbio (Como), the Tokyo Design Centre in Japan, the Natuzzi America Headquarters in the United States, the Essen Expo Centre in Germany, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, the headquarters of the Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, the Verona Forum complex, the City History Museum in Bologna, the Department of Islamic Art at the Louvre in Paris, and the new Milan Convention Centre, the largest in Europe. Projects currently underway include the refurbishing works on the Brera Pinacoteca in Milan, while others nearing completion include the Erzelli Science and Technology Park in Genoa and the Civic Marble’s Square in Carrara. He has various projects at the design stage, which include the “New Eco-City” of Zhenjiang in China and a large Residential, Cultural and Sports Complex in Qatar.

The products of this designer

Duc

Brand: Cassina

Armchair and twoor three seater sofas, structure made of panels with steel skeletal structure and CFCfree polyurethane foam, zippers sewn into the panel covers. Loose cushions in polyurethane foam with polyester padding. Fabric upholstery with leather piping available in various colours or leather upholstery. Feet in black plastic material.

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Cab Night

Brand: Cassina

Bed with a padded headrest and bed frame and legs upholstered in soft thick leather and stiff leather in seven colours: black, Bulgarian red, natural, porcelain, beige, taupe and blue. The bed is available in versions with a fixed headrest, frame only and wall-leaning headrest to be combined with the frame. Poplar plywood and solid beechwood frame, headrest padded in differentiated density polyurethane foam. Hook plates and central bar in black-painted steel. Adjustable central foot in black-painted steel.

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Cab Lounge

Brand: Cassina

Armchair with tubular steel frame. Leather upholstery zippered over the frame, available in five colours: black, brown, taupe, China red and blue.The seat cushion is padded with CFC-free polyurethane foam and feather. The headrest and backrest cushions are feather padded and fi xed to the frame with leather-upholstered hooks. The cushions are upholstered in leather and are recommended in the fi ve colours off ered for the leather frame. The base has five steel spokes painted matte black, matte grey beige or matte chestnut brown. Plastic foot rests.

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Mario Bellini

The products of this designer

Duc

Cab Night

Cab Lounge

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