Chair CAB 412 by Mario Bellini for Cassina

The Italian architect and designer Mario Bellini (born 1935 in Milan) graduated in architecture from the Politecnico di Milano in 1959. From 1963 he worked as chief design consultant at Olivetti, where he designed office equipment such as the Divisumma 28 calculator (1972) and the Praxis 35 typewriter (1981). For Cassina he designed the Cab armchair in 1977, whose tubular steel frame is completely encased in a removable, laced leather cover. For B&B Italia (then C&B Italia) he created the modular sofa system Camaleonda around 1970, whose polyurethane foam elements can be freely combined using metal hooks. From 1985 to 1991 Bellini was also editor-in-chief of the magazine Domus.