357 Feltri

The avant-garde becomes even more contemporary with the Feltri armchair. “The Feltri, the latest expression of innovative design from 1987, returns to the scene, still pleasingly youthful despite its advancing years thanks to a successful facelift carried out by Cassina’s expert surgeons."
Gaetano Pesce.

An established icon at just 30 years of age, now open to a broad and colourful new range of fabrics. The Feltri, an ironic take on a royal throne, is the result of figurative research carried out in a hybrid area between art and functionality. Despite its tender age, the armchair is already a mainstay of the websites of modern art and collectors’ items. It is a unique work, a very dear theme to Pesce, for its malleability and, above all, thanks to the possibility to combine a wide new range of fabrics for the quilt with six new colours for its felt structure (plum, midnight blue, petrol blue, forest green, a grey melange and a pink melange), making it more contemporary than ever. Industrial experimentation and the desire to explore materials. As a boy Gaetano Pesce spent a lot of his time at the Cassina Research & Development Centre. Many innovations emerged from this hive of experimentation, including the Feltri armchair. An armchair made entirely from thick wool felt, the backrest is soft and enveloping while the lower part, impregnated with thermosetting resin, is rigid and durable. A comfortable quilt in fabric coupled with polyester wadding lines the inside of the armchair to create a welcoming cocoon. Created using a patented production technique, the Feltri armchair is still today a symbol of cuttingedge
design.