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MEZZADRO

MEZZADRO STOOL

Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni
1957

DESIGNERS Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni
YEAR 1957
TYPE Stool
MODEL Mezzadro
MATERIAL Steel, wood, tractor seat
MANUFACTURER Zanotta

Mezzadro transforms an existing agricultural component — the pressed-steel seat of a tractor — into a domestic piece of furniture.

The seat is supported by a bent steel element connected to a wooden crosspiece on the floor, creating a deliberately simple and unconventional structure.

The stool demonstrates the Castiglioni brothers’ interest in ready-made objects, reinterpretation and the displacement of familiar components from one context into another.