Strips bed

Name: Strips bed
Brand: arflex

In the early 70 arch. Cini Boeri has revolutionized the furniture industry with his piece that is left now an "evergreen", the sectional sofa Strips which belongs to the history of arflex. Definitely one of the products most 'famous, designed in 1972, has earned the recognition of the Compasso d'Oro award and is exhibited in various museums in the world, as at the Triennale in Milan, Tokyo, at the MoMA in New York, etc.

This product was characterized by a quilted lining is completely removable. Also available as bed and sofa bed, modularity allows infinite combinations. The arch. Cini Boeri has always tried to implement innovative ideas in order to improve the quality of life.

This idea has been applied mainly to the Strips bed, where the coating becomes an integral part of the bed with a simple hinge, the bed is covered and redone, adding only the pillow. Even in the sofa, the cushions are an integral part of the coating, placed on a wooden core, padded with polyurethane (foam) in order to provide greater seating comfort: all innovative materials used in the industry for the first few times.

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Designer

Cini Boeri

She took her degree in the Polytechnic in Milan in 1951. She started her independent professional activity in 1963 (after a period of collaboration with Marco Zanuso) working in architecture and design. She designed houses, apartments and shops both in Italy and abroad, paying particular attention to the study of the functionality of the space in smaller house and the psychological relationships between man and environment. In the area of industrial design she concerned herself with furnishing elements and components for the building trade.Different examples of her achievements can be found in museums and international exhibitions and she has been awarded many prizes, among which, in 1979, a Compasso d’Oro. She runs courses in the Architecture faculty in the Polytechnic of Milan and holds conferences in the universities of various cities in the world. She has published, among others, “The human size of houses” (Milan, 1980).

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In 1947 Carlo Barassi, engineer of Pirelli, together with Renato Teani, in the financial dpt. of Pirelli, Pio Reggiani and Aldo Bai, founded the company Ar-flex (flexible furniture), that became later Arflex. They worked together with a young architect Marzo Zanuso and began to experiment the use of foam rubber and elastic tapes for the furniture market. In history and life of a company there are events and moments of special meaning, which are awards for merit acknowledged by everybody.

Those first memorable moments in the history of arflexcoincide with the company's creation, in modest premises in Milan's Corso di Porta Vittoria. It was there that the first manufacturing and sales team was formed, but the arflex company was only presented to the public for the first time in 1951, at the IX Triennale in Milan,after two years of experimentations. This early contact with a wider audience in the context of an avant-garde artistic event is intensely significant in the company's history, because right this experimental interest, if not separated from commercial purposes, shows the will of creating high technological and esthetical level products, based on deep research and experimentation. The golden medal at the IX Triennale assigned to Lady armchair was above all recognition of Arflex manufacturing philosophy.

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Strips bed

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