Cassina 412 Cab - Black saddle leather (Cuoio Nero) - $1,500 (Carmel)

“A new kind of chair, made entirely of cowhide, often cloned today” – this is how Mario Bellini described the best-selling chair-armchair developed in the golden age of Italian design and today an iconic piece in the Cassina collection.
Mario Bellini is an architect and designer internationally renowned.
He received the Golden Compass Award eight times and 25 of his works are in the permanent design collection of the New York MoMA, which dedicated to him a personal retrospective in 1987.
He was editor of Domus magazine (1985-1991).
“This was a new kind of chair, constructed totally out of leather, much cloned since then.
” Thus Mario Bellini describes Cab, a best-seller that he designed in the 1970s, which is now a signature piece in Cassina’s I Contemporanei collection.
Cab was the first-ever chair to feature a free-standing leather structure, inspired by how our skin fits over our skeleton.
The upholstery consists of sixteen pieces of saddle leather.
They undergo fourteen discrete procedures, again by hand.
The pieces are sewn together only when their outer edges have been trimmed to ensure a perfect fit.
Once assembled, the cover is attached to the chair’s steel skeleton and held in place by means of a zipper fastening, as in a bespoke tailored garment.
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