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There are designs which are born classics in name only. Babela is one of those designs
and one of those names. In 1958 Achille Castiglioni designed this small armchair to add
to the furniture of the Milan chamber of commerce. Comfort meets form and function which
is revealed in the possibility of stacking this seat up like a tower. Its design was simple
and archetypical, with a particular mixture of materials, visual texture and tactile effects.
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3. Achille Castiglioni in studio (photograph G. Widmer).
4, 5. Babela, historical pictures.
“A piece of design is the result of the joint effort of many people with different and specific
technical skills, industrial, commercial and aesthetic. The designer’s work is the
expressive synthesis of this collective effort. The main feature of a project is based on
the relationship among several operators: from the manager to the last worker.”
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