01
/ 05
← ACHILLE CASTIGLIONI
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.