Bean bag chair
| Designer | Piero Gatti, Cesare Paolini, Franco Teodoro |
|---|---|
| Date | 1968 |
| Made in | Italy |
| Materials | Leather or textile (shell), expanded polystyrene (filling) |
| Style / tradition | Italian Radical design |
| Sold by | Zanotta S.p.A. |
| Collection | ADI Design Museum, Centre Pompidou, Museum of Modern Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, et al. |
The Sacco chair (also known as a beanbag chair, or simply a beanbag), is a large pear-shaped bag or sack (Italian: sacco) made of leather or fabric and filled with expanded polystyrene foam pellets ('beans') or a similar material. It is an example of anatomic design, as the user's body determines its form. The Sacco chair was designed by Piero Gatti, Cesare Paolini, and Franco Teodoro in 1968, and became "one of the icons of the Italian anti-design movement. Its complete flexibility and formlessness made it the perfect antidote to the static formalism of mainstream Italian furniture of the period," according to design historian Penny Spark.
The Sacco chair was awarded the Compasso d'Oro and is in the collections of many museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the ADI Design Museum in Milan.