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IT’S GIVING PLAY + PLEASURE.
(ON A DESIGN ICON) 🖤
Not every design object asks you to sit properly.
Some invite you to climb, play, disappear into them for a while.
Joe — originally designed in 1970 by De Pas, D’Urbino, Lomazzi for Poltronova — transforms a baseball glove into an oversized domestic landscape: somewhere between soft sculpture, pop imagery and anti-bourgeois provocation.
Shown here in vintage leather upholstery.
Half furniture, half visual statement.
100% comfort.
0% possible to ignore.
📸 Cover shot by Serena Eller Vainicher : Eller Studio
Joe is a big comfortable chair in the form of a giant baseball glove, mounted on invisible wheels. Inspired by the poetics of Pop Art, the designers gave material form to their admiration for the legendary American baseball player Joe DiMaggio. Through a radical shift in scale, the glove becomes an inhabitable object, bringing a hyperreal image from the world of art into the domestic landscape.
For the fiftieth anniversary of Joe, Poltronova introduced Joe Ball: a leather pouf and footrest shaped like a baseball, designed by D’Urbino and Lomazzi in 2020. Conceived as the natural completion of the armchair, Joe Ball combines comfort, irony and sculptural presence.
Joe Ball pouf/footrest By D’Urbino, Lomazzi for Poltronova, 2020
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#Poltronova #JoeChair #ItalianDesign #RadicalDesign #DesignIcons
IT’S GIVING PLAY + PLEASURE.
(ON A DESIGN ICON) 🖤
Not every design object asks you to sit properly.
Some invite you to climb, play, disappear into them for a while.
Joe — originally designed in 1970 by De Pas, D’Urbino, Lomazzi for Poltronova — transforms a baseball glove into an oversized domestic landscape: somewhere between soft sculpture, pop imagery and anti-bourgeois provocation.
Shown here in vintage leather upholstery.
Half furniture, half visual statement.
100% comfort.
0% possible to ignore.
📸 Cover shot by Serena Eller Vainicher @serenaeller : Eller Studio @ellerstudio
Joe is a big comfortable chair in the form of a giant baseball glove, mounted on invisible wheels. Inspired by the poetics of Pop Art, the designers gave material form to their admiration for the legendary American baseball player Joe DiMaggio. Through a radical shift in scale, the glove becomes an inhabitable object, bringing a hyperreal image from the world of art into the domestic landscape.
For the fiftieth anniversary of Joe, Poltronova introduced Joe Ball: a leather pouf and footrest shaped like a baseball, designed by D’Urbino and Lomazzi in 2020. Conceived as the natural completion of the armchair, Joe Ball combines comfort, irony and sculptural presence.
Joe Ball pouf/footrest By D’Urbino, Lomazzi for Poltronova, 2020
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#Poltronova #JoeChair #ItalianDesign #JoeBall #DesignIcons
Safari, imperial sofa by Archizoom Associati for Poltronova, 1967 🖤
Originally designed in 1967 by Archizoom Associati for Poltronova, Safari transforms the sofa into an open, informal landscape for conversation, rest and collective living.
Conceived during the years of Superarchitettura and radical experimentation, Safari rejects rigid domestic codes in favour of a freer and more fluid way of inhabiting space. Its oversized proportions and soft modular structure turn comfort into attitude.
In this version, the deep black leather upholstery amplifies the object’s sculptural presence, balancing softness and visual intensity. More than a sofa, Safari becomes a platform for gathering, talking, waiting, lounging, existing together.
A timeless icon from the Poltronova collection, still radically contemporary.
#Poltronova #SafariSofa #Archizoom #ItalianDesign #radicaldesign
UNSTABLE FORMS. LIVING OBJECTS ⚪️
Nothing here asks to be understood immediately.
Everything asks to be experienced.
Inside UN—, Poltronova transforms domestic space into a condition of tension, movement, and possibility. Historical icons no longer behave like museum pieces. They become active presences inside an unfinished landscape.
Superonda flows through the space without fixed direction.
Gherpe unfolds like a luminous creature.
Crazy Horse turns structure into gesture.
Cessato Allarme stands somewhere between function and provocation.
Sanremo rises like a luminous palm inside the unfinished landscape of UN—. A radical floor lamp by Archizoom Associati that turns light into atmosphere, presence, and movement.
At Salone del Mobile 2026, Poltronova continues its dialogue between radical design history and contemporary experimentation, introducing new works by Bethan Laura Wood and Andrea Mancuso alongside the brand’s most iconic pieces.
UN— is not an exhibition about permanence.
It is about process.
About instability.
About what happens before things settle into definition.
📍 Salone Internazionale del Mobile @isaloniofficial
📸 Serena Eller Vainicher : Eller Studio @serenaeller @ellerstudio
🎨 Exhibition Creative Direction: @_d_apostrophe_ / @donutsinho
🎬 Animation by @gianlucagarupaionni
#Poltronova #SaloneDelMobile #MilanDesignWeek #CrazyHorseTable #ItalianDesign
PART 3 — 🪹 A NEST TO REST, TO LOVE OR...
Terrazzo Quarry is a sculptural seating system you can inhabit. Designed by Bethan Laura Wood for Poltronova, the project transforms terrazzo into an artificial landscape made of soft, monumental upholstered forms.
Inspired by the endless variations of Venetian terrazzo floors discovered during the designer’s residency in a historic palazzo, the system translates surface into volume and pattern into space. The exclusive textile evokes gemstone fragments escaping from the aggregate, settling across the seating elements like pieces of a psychedelic quarry.
The modules can be composed together or scattered freely throughout the environment, encouraging interaction, climbing, rest, and play. Somewhere between furniture, landscape, and installation, Terrazzo Quarry blurs the boundary between illusion and structure, decoration and inhabitation.
🪨 Terrazzo Quarry by Bethan Laura Wood for Poltronova, 2025
#Poltronova #BethanLauraWood #TerrazzoQuarry #TerrazzoFabric #ContemporaryDesign
PINK. GLOSSY. GLASS.
Pluriball: coffee table by Andrea Mancuso, 2026
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Pluriball is a table that embodies Poltronova’s experimental and ironic spirit, transforming an everyday pop reference into a design object. Its top is created through the fusion of coloured glass circles onto a transparent glass sheet, generating a three-dimensional surface punctuated by chromatic reliefs that recall bubble wrap.
The process involves an initial fusion of the circles onto transparent glass, followed by their pairing with a second coloured glass sheet. This step introduces a tonal variation that enhances depth and the perception of relief, making the surface more vibrant and layered. Rather than adopting a monomaterial solution, the structure is supported by transparent borosilicate glass legs, which visually lighten the object and emphasize its optical dimension.
The table appears to emerge in space, allowing the top to define rhythm, density, and presence. Colour behaves as a stratification, surfacing through the glass and shifting according to light and viewpoint.
The project unfolds as a family of chromatic variations, including Tangerine, Tuscan Green, Sicilia Bronze, and Pink. In this version, the glossy pink tone amplifies the table’s playful and luminous quality, turning the surface into a field of reflections, bubbles, and chromatic depth.
Pluriball thus takes shape as an active surface, where a repeated gesture becomes structure and detail turns into language.
📸 Serena Eller : Eller Studio
@serenaeller : @ellerstudio
📍Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2026
@isaloniofficial
#Poltronova #PluriballTable #AndreaMancuso #GlassTable #IronicDesign
