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The Invisibile Armchair
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Ghost
An expression of timeless beauty and an iconic product, Ghost represents the privilege of a “phantom” armchair. A monolithic seat made from a single 12 mm-thick glass sheet, cut using Paser technology and skilfully curved with dynamic moulds. A true design and technological challenge, taken on by Cini Boeri together with Fiam Italia – between technique and aesthetics – transforming the seemingly impossible idea of an armchair in glass into a triumph of form. Now featured in design museums worldwide and winner of numerous awards, Ghost embodies the finest ambitions of the company, perfectly expressing its commitment to research, development, and iconicity – a synthesis of innovation in design and technology, aesthetics and technique.
Year
1987
Designer
Cini Boeri
Brand
Laboratorio Pesaro
An expression of timeless beauty and an iconic product, Ghost represents the privilege of a “phantom” armchair. A monolithic seat made from a single 12 mm-thick glass sheet, cut using Paser technology and skilfully curved with dynamic moulds. A true design and technological challenge, taken on by Cini Boeri together with Fiam Italia – between technique and aesthetics – transforming the seemingly impossible idea of an armchair in glass into a triumph of form. Now featured in design museums worldwide and winner of numerous awards, Ghost embodies the finest ambitions of the company, perfectly expressing its commitment to research, development, and iconicity – a synthesis of innovation in design and technology, aesthetics and technique.
Year
1987
Designer
Cini Boeri
Brand
Laboratorio Pesaro
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New Possibilities in Glass
We are in the 1980s. Typologies, now deconstructed, are undergoing renewal; technologies, once revealed, are becoming assimilated, and decoration is reloaded with an excess of necessary linguistic and social meaning. Milan has just become the emblem of 1980s consumerism and nightlife, finance begins to replace industry, and hedonism and appearance shape new social customs and aesthetic messages. The previous decade, launched with the triumph of plastics, finds in the energy crisis the opportunity to consider other materials to be explored through emerging technologies: resins, carbon, metals, cardboard, fabrics, and glass.
Designing the Invisible
While everything seemed visible, Cini Boeri – after designing many acclaimed seating pieces – declared her intention to “create one that could not be seen”, one that would disappear. The venture began as a bet between the designer – always invested in research – and the entrepreneur – ever open to development – over dinner, in a conversation about new industrial possibilities and fresh design visions. A few months later, Boeri presented the concept, fully aware of its impracticality, and challenged Vittorio Livi to assess and develop its feasibility. In 1985, during the development of some pieces for her collaboration with FIAM (including the Voyeur screen and a dining table), her senior assistant, the Japanese architect Tomu Katayanagi, showed her “one of his magical paper models”. The potential was immediately clear: a sinuous form shaped from a single sheet, cut and notched, curved and folded – like a Japanese kirigami. Together, they refined the dimensions, finalised the profile design, and presented it to FIAM.
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An Istant Success
First presented at the Salone del Mobile in Milan in 1987, it immediately won the 1st Prize in the “Readers’ Referendum”, a competition by Interni magazine inviting visitors to choose the most innovative product. It later received the “Forum Design Award” from Cosmit Milan (1987), and, in 2022, the ADI Compasso d’Oro for Lifetime Achievement. The jury’s statement read: “A perfect synthesis of technological experimentation and formal research, the Ghost armchair, designed by Cini Boeri and Tomu Katayanagi, represents the desire to dematerialise the perception of function in favour of the user, who thus becomes the true protagonist of the space.”
In 2017, during the Salone del Mobile, the 30th anniversary of Ghost was celebrated, and its production continues uninterrupted to this day. The complexity of its manufacture has prevented imitation, ensuring that Ghost remains both a contemporary expression of language and a timeless classic.
Curated by
Federica Facchini
First presented at the Salone del Mobile in Milan in 1987, it immediately won the 1st Prize in the “Readers’ Referendum”, a competition by Interni magazine inviting visitors to choose the most innovative product. It later received the “Forum Design Award” from Cosmit Milan (1987), and, in 2022, the ADI Compasso d’Oro for Lifetime Achievement. The jury’s statement read: “A perfect synthesis of technological experimentation and formal research, the Ghost armchair, designed by Cini Boeri and Tomu Katayanagi, represents the desire to dematerialise the perception of function in favour of the user, who thus becomes the true protagonist of the space.”
In 2017, during the Salone del Mobile, the 30th anniversary of Ghost was celebrated, and its production continues uninterrupted to this day. The complexity of its manufacture has prevented imitation, ensuring that Ghost remains both a contemporary expression of language and a timeless classic.
Curated by
Federica Facchini
Premi e Riconoscimenti
Technical Specifications
Misure
H. 62 x L. 95 x P. 75 cm. – Payload 130 kg.
Materiale
curved glass
Varianti
Extralight glass, Extralight RAL back-lacquered glass, Smoked glass
Bibliografia
Ghost. Icon of a dream, FIAM 2022, Fiamitalia.it
Misure
H. 62 x L. 95 x P. 75 cm. – Payload 130 kg.
Materiale
curved glass
Varianti
Extralight glass, Extralight RAL back-lacquered glass, Smoked glass
Bibliografia
Ghost. Icon of a dream, FIAM 2022, Fiamitalia.it
