The The Zanotta Maggiolina Lounge Chair was originally designed for a competition held by the MoMa in New York, Marco Zanuso’s 1947 Maggiolina Lounge Chair has remained an icon of twentieth-century design since. Shying away from the more traditional artisan-built chairs of the period, Zanuso experimented with new methods of industrial construction – with the idea of an inexpensive and dismantlable armchair, accessible to all. The Zanotta Maggiolina Lounge Chair features a curved steel tubing structure from which a burlap ‘bag’ is hung, the ‘pockets’ of which contain two panels of plywood to support the two padded cushions that make up the seat and backrest.