Enrico Marone Cinzano Chairs

This folding chair is made in Italy from locally sourced and recycled glass and steel. After being repurposed the steel used was treated with superficially with a water-based solutio...

Considering I come from Torino, the car manufacturing capital, it only made sense that at some point I would extend my work to the automobile industry. I went scavenging through car junk yards and found that the aftermath of that industry produced a wealth of beautiful and extremely well made products which could be re-utilized into making furniture, hence the birth of 'Dondolo'. It's a rocking chair with a foot in the past and one in the future. Still benefitting from the factory-issue moving parts, the original leather Alfa Romeo 166 seat reclines and heats at will, powered by an eco-friendly gel based battery which can be charged with any power outlet. By means of two periscopic arms, it has the added comfort of providing a swinging, retractable work table to rest your laptop, and an efficient dimmable warm-toned LED light, housed in what was a beautiful metal FIAT 500...

This chair is structured in locally sourced Italian steel then covered in recycled, 18th century Italian pinus cembra and treated with linseed oil. CIRMOLO, ANCIENT PINUS CEMBRA: - WOOD ORIGINALLY HARVESTED FROM THE VARAITA VALLEY, PIEDMONT, ITALY - PLANKS RECOVERED FROM DISMANTLED MOUNTAIN CHALETS ORIGINALLY BUILT IN THE 18TH CENTURY - DOES NOT REQUIRE SPECIAL FINISHES BUT CAN BE TREATED WITH NATURAL BEESWAX - THE WOOD WAS TREATED TO CONFORM TO INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING REQUIREMENTS...