Cassina - Charles Rennie Mackintosh - Chair - Hill House - Velvet, Ashwood

Hill House is the chair homage to the artistic genius of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect, designer and painter, exponent of the Glasgow Movement and one of the most important figures of Art Nouveau in the United Kingdom.
Made of black lacquered ash wood, it is characterized by the emblematic, very high and perforated backrest with horizontal and square motifs, which designs its slim and elusive silhouette, enhancing its eccentric volumes despite their dimensional sobriety. The chair is equipped with a comfortable padded seat covered in leather.
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The chair presented in this auction is in excellent used condition with only minor signs of use.
The seat upholstery is in petrol-coloured velvet.
There is a Cassina brand printed on the frame and a progressive production code number.
The chair is also accompanied by an original Cassina certificate of authenticity.
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Dimensions
Height 140cm
Seat height 42cm
Depth 35cm
Width 40cm
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Our company ORVETT includes transport insurance for Italy/Europe in the shipping costs indicated.
For "rest of the world" shipping the cost is indicative. We will formulate a quote once the auction is over according to the destination.
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868 - 1928) undoubtedly deserves the credit of having created some of the most original and elegant examples of Liberty style chairs. In his furniture he managed to transform the natural forms of the Art Nouveau style into geometric shapes, thus becoming the precursor of the Viennese secession and the modern movement propagated by the Bauhaus. Mickintosh, like his North American 'colleague' Frank Lloyd Wright, an exponent of organic design, paid special attention to internal spaces, convinced as he was that a building should be a coherent and synergistic whole of the details cohabiting in harmony. His predilection for simple shapes and passion for decorating surfaces is reflected in the design of the interiors themselves, organized according to motifs generally inspired by nature. His chairs combine references to natural models and geometric order, to the craftsmanship of Arts and Crafts and to Design, incorporating the two apparently contradictory elements of the Liberty style and demonstrating their essential symbiosis. The chairs feature exaggeratedly high backrests, the shape of which summarizes Mackintosh's style: a combination of refinement and opulence with severe austerity and exuberant romanticism. Although his original style quickly achieved success in Austria and Germany, Charles Rennie Mackintosh did not gain recognition at home until several years after his death.
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Cassina
In a Meda from 1927, the brothers Cesare and Umberto, Amedeo's sons, decide to dedicate themselves to woodworking for the production of artisanal coffee tables.
This is how the history of the “Amedeo Cassina” company was born, today known to all as Cassina.
Already in the 1950s, Cassina dedicated itself to the creation of contract projects, starting from nautical and furnishing the transatlantic Andrea Doria. Spokesperson for this - and other - innovations is Gio Ponti, with whom the brand embarks on a path of aesthetic renewal, what today we would call Artistic Direction.
The collaboration with many leading names in architecture and design, the hunger for research and technological innovation, together with the dedication to the artisan tradition, allow Cassina to express itself in 1950s Italy according to the rules of industrial design , a new language resulting from the transition from artisanal production to quality mass production.
The result? In 1954 the first Compasso D'Oro Award was announced and Cassina won it with the 683 Chair: a thin sheet of ash plywood, curved and shaped to its function by Carlo De Carli.
In 1966, Cassina joined Busnelli – father of what is today the B&B Italia group – to found the new company C&B, Cassina and Busnelli, which exploited new technologies for processing polyurethane foam for industrial production in large quantities.
The history of Cassina is a succession of successes, which, in 1965, pushed the brand to acquire the re-edition rights of some historical pieces from the 1920s, the work of Le Corbusier, Piere Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand.
The Cassina I Maestri collection was officially born in 1975, the result of a research process aimed at reconstructing the furniture masterpieces of the 20th century and collecting them in a permanent collection capable of telling the history of design.
True design, in fact, has no time and no age, and so the icons of yesterday are dressed in the same brand that creates those of tomorrow.
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