Tacchini‘s constant and passionate research about furniture design always brings the company to discover new shapes, materials and creative personalities, but also to rediscover historical design masters.
This time Tacchini’s focus is Gianfranco Frattini, one of the major protagonists of Italian Design from the ’50s to the beginning of 2000. A pupil of Giò Ponti, he was a designer and architect at the same time. He was an expert of traditional wood manufacturing but at the same time he enjoyed experimenting with innovative technologies.
Gianfranco Frattini was among the founders of ADI (Associazione per il Disegno Industriale) and from his studio in Via Sant’Agnese in Milano he collaborated with some of the most famous manufacturers in the world. Tacchini collaborated with the Gianfranco Frattini Archivio to bring back to life one of Frattini’s most representative designs: the armchair 849, that received big interest during the Compasso d’Oro in 1956.
