Early ‘Poltrona di Proust’, circa 1978. Hand painted fabric and wood. 108 x 93 x 77 cm (42 1/2 x 36 5/8 x 30 3/8 in)♠

PROVENANCE Purchased for the interior of the Robert and Michele Kay Furniture and Art Gallery, Sloane Street, Knightsbridge, London, 1978–79, then gifted Bonhams, ‘Post War and Contemporary Art and Design’ London, 22 September 2010, lot 137.
LITERATURE Barbara Radice, Elogio del banale, Milan, 1980, front cover Andrea Branzi, The Hot House: Italian New Wave Design, Cambridge, 1984, p. 123 fig. 321 Albrecht Bangert, Italian Furniture Design: Ideas Styles Movements, Munich, 1988, pp. 63, 65 Charlotte and Peter Fiell, 1000 Chairs, Cologne, 1997, p. 538 Glenn Adamson and Jane Pavitt eds., Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970–1990, exh. cat., Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2011, p. 41.