Sgabillo Stool by Max Bill for Zanotta

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This sgabillo stool was originally designed by max bill for the ulm school of design ca. 1950. In the 1970s, … more This sgabillo stool was originally designed by max bill for the ulm school of design ca. 1950. In the 1970s, the design was put into production by italian manufacturer zanotta. This piece remains in a good, original vintage condition. Max bill (22 december 1908 – 9 december 1994) was a swiss architect, artist, painter, typeface designer, industrial designer, and graphic designer. Over the course of his career, he executed many public sculptures in europe and exhibited extensively in galleries and museums around the world, including a retrospective at the kunsthaus zürich in 1968-69. He had his first exhibition in the united states at the staempfli gallery in new york city in 1963 and was the subject of retrospectives at the albright-knox art gallery in buffalo (1974), the los angeles county museum of art (1974-1975), and the solomon r. Guggenheim museum in new york city (1988). He participated in documentas i (1955), ii (1959), and iii (1964). In 1993, he received the praemium imperiale for sculpture, awarded by the emperor of japan. less