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The Safari sofa is a multiple seat with the profile of the backrest shaped like a series of waves, one gathers in the central void, accessed through an opening, as in a sort of tribal ritual. The piece of furniture consists of four pieces of two different types (two armchair modules and two sofa modules). The Safari sofa was put into production for the first time by Poltronova in 1968. The experimental fibreglass technique was used for the structure. For the seat and backrest upholstery, Archizoom chose a printed animal pattern fabric with a Leopard print. The same pattern is used for the polyurethane foam rug placed between the seats. The choice of the leopard pattern was a cultured reference to the work Bedroom ensemble (1963) by Claes Oldenburg, master of English Pop Art, and his subsequent Leopard chair, but also to a Kitsch taste adopted by the group in polemic with the need to make form follow function. It is part of the permanent collection of prestigious museums including the Centre Pompidou and the Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal. It has taken part in numerous exhibitions.

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• typology sofa
• dimension 85/130[l] x 85/130[w] x 64[h] cm
• materials [frame] white fibreglass [padding] polyurethane foam [covering] faux fur covering with leopard animal pattern [rug] polyurethane foam covered in faux fur with leopard animal pattern
• colours [frame] black / white [covering] spotted grey / spotted yellow
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Exhibitions

• 2017 Radical Utopias: Beyond architecture: Florence 1966–1976, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
• 2018 Radical Utopias: Beyond architecture: Florence 1966–1976, CCA Canadian Centre for Architecture, MMontréal
• 2022 Afro-Tyrolean Kitsch. Milano Design Week. Fondazione Sozzani, Milan
• 2023 Ultrafavola. Poltronova beyond the mirror, Milano Design Week, Milan

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Archizoom Associati

Italian architectural and design studio.

Archizoom Associati (1966–1974) was a dynamic and utopian Italian architectural and design studio, one of the founders of the Florentine Radical movement, and the strongest voice of the Radical Architecture movement. Although it was an organized movement for less than a decade, its concepts hold a revered status today and are standard topics covered in design and architectural curricula, and many of the studio’s designs and products are in prominent museum collections around the world.

Gilberto Corretti, Massimo Morozzi and Andrea Branzi found Archizoom

The advent of Archizoom was thanks to four pioneering Florentine designers and architects— Andrea Branzi (1938), Gilberto Corretti (1941), Massimo Morozzi (1941–2014), and Paolo Deganello (1940)—who joined forces in 1966 bound by their shared vision for avant-garde design. They channeled this energy into their first exhibition, titled “Superarchitettura,” in which the members of Archizoom partnered with Superstudio, another Florentine design firm. In this showcase, they paired sample prototypes of revolutionary furnishings with colorful projections to create an almost otherworldly space.

The next year, Archizoom organized its second exhibition, titled “Superarchitettura 2.” Shortly thereafter, Archizoom added two new members, the designers Dario Bartolini (1943) and Lucia Bartolini (1944), into its collaborative studio. The infusion of these new creative spirits accelerated Archizoom’s momentum and assertiveness, and the traditional elements of refined and elegant Italian design were set aside in favor of playful, boundary-pushing forms that echoed the energy of the contemporary Pop Art age. read more

No-Stop City

By breaking these rules, Archizoom’s members also established new parameters for art, architecture, and design and the ways in which all three could be integrated into the modern lifestyle. To that end, their design of the exhibition “No-Stop City” (1970) revealed their powerful ability to expand their design thinking to the realm of the modern city by incorporating a novel vision of urbanization.

No-Stop City is a theoretical project that was published for the first time in Casabella magazine in 1970 with the name “City, assembly line of social issues, ideology and theory of the metropolis.” The project proposes an evolving city without architecture, built with a repetitive pattern with numerous hubs that form a continuous even structure. In this utopian structure, the pattern is only broken by natural features such as rivers or hills, and people live in tents.

In this city without architecture and its aesthetic value, humans live in a continuous flow of information, markets and services, and routinely use nature to create and decorate their environments. Spaces are adorned with rocks and branches that coexist with industrially generated materials and the basic tools of modern existence and transportation such as motorcycles and electric appliances.

Important furniture designs by Archizzoom

Among the most important furniture designs created by the Archizoom while the movement still formally existed are: the Superonda sofa (1966) designed by Andrea Branzi, which was first a foam-and-vinyl sofa, but later produced with two polyurethane blocks cut into two S-shape parts that can be stacked to different configurations; Dream bed, or Letti di Sogno, by Gilberto Corretti (1967)’ the Safari Sofa (1967-1968), which was made by inserting a semicircle with 6 upholstered seats into a lacquered fiberglass square; the San Remo halogen floor lamp (1968) which was an engagement present from Dario Bartolini to Lucia Morozzi, but designed by famed modernist architect Ernesto Nathan Rogers , in the shape of a palm tree with metal and stem  base and methacrylate plastic pendant foliage; the now iconic Mies Chair (1969), which took the chrome frame used in the modernist Mies chair and cow hide elements used by Corbusier and reconfigured them to express a critical view point to the consumerism preferences prevalent at the time.

Museum exhibitions of Archizoom furniture, and designs and architectural concepts

Their work ascended to international acclaim with the display of their creations at the landmark 1972 exhibition “Italy: The New Domestic Landscape” at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Most recently, Archizoom was featured at the exhibition “Radical: Italian Design 1965-1985, The Dennis Freeman Collection.”  at the  Museum of Fine Arts, Houston  (February 14, 2020–April 26, 2020).

Unbound by a particular medium, the masterminds of Archizoom explored the implications of Radical design across various disciplines. It was perhaps their individual quests for ongoing innovation that led to the group’s dissolution in 1974 as the members moved on to pursue their own practice.

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Safari Sofa

$ 13,500.00

About Safari Sofa

• Category Furniture Seating Sofas
• Brand Poltronova
• Designed by Archizoom Associati
• Design Year 1967
• Materials Frame in white fibreglass, padding in polyurethane foam, covering in faux fur with leopard animal pattern, rug in polyurethane foam covered in faux fur with leopard animal pattern
• Diameter 51.1
• Height 25.0

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Safari Sofa by Archizoom Associati

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The Safari sofa is a multiple seat with the profile of the backrest shaped like a series of waves, one gathers in the central void, accessed through an opening, as in a sort of tribal ritual. The piece of furniture consists of four pieces of two different types (two armchair modules and two sofa modules).

The Safari sofa was put into production for the first time by Poltronova in 1968. The experimental fibreglass technique was used for the structure. For the seat and backrest upholstery, Archizoom chose a printed animal pattern fabric with a Leopard print. The same pattern is used for the polyurethane foam carpet placed between the seats. 2022 sees the re-introduction of this iconic sofa to the Poltronova catalogue.

Available in three faux fur colourways: Plain White, Grey Leopard, Yellow Leopard.

• Design: Archizoom Associati (1967) Materials: Frame in White Fibreglass, Polyurethane Foam
• Upholstery: Faux Fur with Leopard Animal Print
• Carpet: Polyurethane Foam Covered in Faux Fur with Leopard Animal Print
• Dimensions Complete Sofa: L260 x W215 x H64cm
• Dimensions Armchair: L85 x W85 x H64cm
• Dimensions Seater Sofa: L130 x W130 x H64cm
• Weight: 130kg
• Handmade in Italy
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• Lead Time Approx: 14 Weeks

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Safari Lounge Sofa, Archizoom Associati, 1968

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Archizoom, a Story of Rebellion, Shapes, and Provocations

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Being Unconventional

The non-stop-city project, against every rule, what’s fashion, the concept of space, more designs signed archizoom.

“Instead of scientific progress, born from the intelligence that explains it all and from the elegance that saves all, we prefer a paper and bright horizon, with a rainbow above. We also would like to say that we aren’t where they are looking and don’t trust how we greet you. Then there is this scent of dead roses, that we don’t like much..” – Archizoom.

In the 1960s, Italian architects Andrea Branzi, Gilberto Corretti, Paolo Deganello, and Massimo Morozzi smelled the dead roses, a scent that no one else could smell. In an era of positivity, economic boom, and family, the four artists of the Archizoom studio felt differently. With World War II over, Italy was experiencing a new Renaissance. The 60s and 70s were the years of the “Dolce Vita.” And of the Superonda and Safari sofas.

Empty Rooms and Free-style

The four architects formed their studio in Florence in 1966. The same year, they also inaugurated their Superarchitecture exhibit, and that’s how the group announced its debut in the world of design. The term “Super” might create a misunderstanding. “Super” might remind viewers of skyscrapers or the new Italy, a country filled with cars and Vespa bikes.

But, to Archizoom, “Super” meant something different. The decades of the 60s and 70s were the decades of super-production and consumption. These were the years of the supermarket with way too many options of tomato sauces and cheap packets of spaghetti. After the scarcity and poverty of the war and the aftermath, Italians wanted it all.

“Superarchitecture is the architecture of the superman,” read the poster of the exhibition. This wasn’t the superhero who saved the world, just the opposite. The designers of Archizoom saw ordinary men who believed anything was possible, especially the pursuit and reach of happiness. But this radical avant-garde movement didn’t believe in any of it. That’s why most art and design critics of the era defined the work of Archizoom as a “panic.”

The design and architecture of the 60s and 70s centered on one philosophy: functionality. Terraced houses, sofas, and armchairs were supposed to be practical and comfortable. Forget about imagination or creativity. Everything had to be functional, watch TV in comfort, or enjoy a coffee cup on the terrace. Until the four architects of Archizoom threw functionality out of the window with pieces like the Safari and the Superonda Sofa.

They also threw society’s ideas of happiness in the trash. The TV, radio, and even the media told Italians that happiness was within their reach. All they had to do was work hard and create a family. Then, retirement would reward them for their hardships. Needless to say, Andrea, Gilberto, Paolo, and Massimo didn’t believe in it. While they didn’t define their work as “revolutionary,” they wanted to make people and viewers think.

Stop focusing on the outside, Archizoom said, and look inside. How? With empty rooms and with the Superonda Sofa.

Archizoom launched this project between 1969-1971, and it included both the Superonda Sofa and the Safari Sofa. It’s figurative architecture, meaning it doesn’t solve problems (aka functionality), but it provokes the viewer. The principle behind Non-Stop-City is that, in the future, citizens won’t need a centralized and modern city like Milan was becoming. Why? Because technology will create a new metropolis that is revolutionary and it doesn’t follow any rules.

Traditional urban landscapes created interrupted patterns with tons of empty spaces. The new city is a continuous structure with no emptiness and in which everything was repurposed, like elevators that could become social spaces, a city without architecture.

“The No Stop City guarantees you will have the car outside your home, and it guarantees maximum demographic concentration,” said architect Andrea Branzi. This new metropolis will have parks with free-form organic shapes, like the ones of the Superonda Sofa.

The Unconventional Sofas by Archizoom

These two designs belonged to the 1969 project, and they quickly became popular. They are:

● Superonda Sofa ● Safari Sofa

The Superonda is designed as a free-style sitting space without any backrests or armrests. It’s a modular sofa with pieces that combine and match like a puzzle. However, this is a sofa without a body. Instead, it’s one big and colorful wave. It’s one block of polyurethane divided by an S-shaped cut. Thanks to its modularity, the Superonda Sofa can become a bed or chaise longue. It’s pop before pop culture was even a thing. Shiny (thanks to its sky coating) and in the colors of red, black, and white, this Archizoom sofa challenges conventional society.

Produced between 1968 and 1974, the Safari Sofa was advertised as “an imperial piece in the squalor of your domestic walls. A beautiful piece that you don’t deserve.” Provocative, indeed. Giant and with a fiberglass structure, the Safari Sofa features a seat in foam rubber covered with plush. Two superimposed solid pieces form this piece, and one is circular while the second is like a wave. Archizoom’s piece reminds the viewer of an African safari with two palms in the corners and a carpet in fake leopard leather. Kitsch and ironic, this sofa broke every design rule.

Both the Superonda Sofa and the Safari Sofa challenged the functional designs of the 60s and 70s. In fact, the architecture and furniture of these decades focused on gathering the masses. The new masses had money, and each house had a TV. People were ready to spend, and they started thinking about the future. Hence, geometric shapes and plastic are everywhere. Living rooms all over the world looked alike with household appliances and crowded open shelves. Consumer society didn’t have any space for creativity.

On the other hand, Archizoom studio has space for imagination. The four architects established themselves as the anti-design movement, creating panic in the field. This movement focused on warm, colorful, and soft shapes and forms. Also, modularity was an important characteristic. Forget impersonal industriality. It was time to find strength in the differences. Every design created by Archizoom promoted variety.

The Italian furniture brand Poltronova produced the Superonda sofa and the Safari sofa.

Founded in 1956 by Sergio Camilli in Tuscany, this design company shows Italy’s hope after World War II. Poltronova was born with the idea of innovative modern furniture, bringing something new and different to the public. Joining designer Ettore Sottsass , Camilli and his company wanted to experiment with the boundaries of art and comfort. During the first years of the business, Poltronova focused on elegant and modern furniture, often using wood as the primary material. Warm and never outdated, wood can never go out of fashion.

Just like innovative design doesn’t go out of fashion. That’s why the Italian company always collaborated with the brightest and most alternative minds in this world, partnering with names like Mario Ceroli, and De Pas D’Urbino, and Lomazzi. Through the years, it became a safe space for creative people. Decades ago, the company had readings, movie showings (especially appreciating Andy Warhol), and poetry readings.

In the 60s, Poltronova and its team of designers embodied the diverse soul of Italian design, with all its contradictions and opposite tendencies. It did this with the certainty that this complexity hid wealth. The complexity could unite people, and its vitality could create an extraordinary phenomenon. It’s the phenomenon of pushing people to the limit and of making them rethink their certainties. After all, in life and design, there are no certainties. Everything can change at any time.

The Archizoom Designs, not Only Sofas

The four Italian designers didn’t break the rules only with sofas. While the Safari and Superonda Sofa are the most famous pieces, Archizoom studio produced armchairs, clothes, and inspiration worldwide.

The exhibition “Design Dressing” dates to 1973. Indeed, clothes for the designers. “We haven’t looked for a new line or clothes of the future, but rather for a different way of using clothes,” Archizoom announced. Every item has two fundamental pieces: a colored elastic costume and a loose suit. Mass production in the clothing industry had issues of organization and, once again, creativity. The “Design Dressing” exhibit focused on Arab standards and culture, but it created an independent outfit that could serve everyone.

Archizoom had a conflictual relationship with fashion. As the architects themselves stated, “getting dressed is easy because elegance is dead.” Fashion had rigid rules, both of gender and colors. Pink is for girls, right? And so are skirts. Well, the Italian designers disagreed – not a surprise anymore. Fashion could and should be free, especially free from sexual connotations and gender. This way, clothes become a means of communication, and the person decides what to communicate. Not the fashion designer.

And it all begins with one revolutionary piece of cloth. In the consumer society, everyone started looking the same. Archizoom studio wanted to inspire people to be themselves, outside of any rules, with its experiments and creativity. So, clothes are not functional but inspiring.

Archizoom challenged the conventions, even the idea of space itself and not only with the Superonda Sofa.

The consumer society liked owning things. Houses were filled with objects, and most of them were useless. Nowadays, we call it “materialism.” Space has to be filled. Not according to the Italian designers. Space is something negative, a reality that we aren’t living. So, it’s time to change it and even substitute it.

Perhaps with the AEO lounge chair, an armchair with Durethan base, painted steel structure, and fabric upholstery. People could add tables to it, changing the configuration of the lounge chair. Then, the studio launched the empty gazebos and rooms as the opposite of functionality. While these design pieces were meant to be empty, people could have filled them with Archizoom’s collections, like the “Rosa Imperiale” or the “Grandi Viaggi.”

The former literally means “Imperial Rose,” while the latter means “Great Journeys.” These collections featured mother-of-pearl coating, modular carpets, and stamped sheet metal. Or the “Letti di Sogno,” beds of dreams of the Rosa Imperiale collection. Their style is redundant and kitsch, like the Safari Sofa. Different symbols juxtapose and even pop elements. These beds are designed to be aggressive, and they oppose the surrounding space. Perfect with the rainbow lamp, also part of the series.

The Italian furniture brand Cassina has been the producer of the AEO lounge chair. This piece has been featured in its collection through the years alongside the works and creations of Afra and Tobia Scarpa , Mario Bellini , Vico Magistretti , and Gio Ponti . Because great minds think alike, still, the imagination of Archizoom went beyond these pieces.

For example, the Mies chair, one of the group’s first creations in 1969. Made of chrome-plated steel, rubber, hide cushions, light bulb, and cable with plug, this chair looks like it should be by the swimming pool. However, it seems like a chaise lounge, but it’s not as comfortable as one. This is rigid yet functional. The rubber yields to the person’s weight, and it also features a footrest and headrest.

The bedrooms of the Italian studio featured fake marble nightstands, “front armchair for taking off your socks,” and portraits of Bob Dylan. Kitsch, unconventional, and not at all functional, every piece signed by Archizoom challenged the 60s and 70s.

“We want to introduce you to anything that’s left behind: the built banality, the international vulgarity, urban designs, and biting dogs,” stated the representatives of Archizoom studio. They reached their intent, undoubtedly. And they kept pushing the boundaries of architecture and beliefs until 1974 when the group took different paths. Still, they always smelled the dead roses, and they tried to do anything in their power to revive them.

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SAFARI modular sofa by Archizoom

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• Description SAFARI sofa by ARCHIZOOM "Safari" lounge sofa, Archizoom Associati (assets from 1966 to 1974). Model created in 1968, first edition of Poltronova 1968. In white lacquered fiberglass, composed of four elements forming a rectangular unit. Italy, 1970s

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Safari Sofa by Archizoom Associati. Ed. Poltronova

Very rare Safari sofa created in 1968 by Archizoom Associati and edited by Poltronova. We have kept the original suede, but we can take care of changing it. Why not honor the name of this sofa with a Leopard velvet from Pierre Frey®? The fiberglass structure is in very good condition.

Dimensions : H60 x L261 x D225 cm

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Archizoom Associati was born in 1966 when four Florentine designers and architects, Andrea Branzi, Gilberto Corretti, Massimo Morozzi and Paolo Deganello, came together with a shared vision and common desire to push forward avant-garde design. The Italian architecture and design studio operated prolifically from 1966–1974. An investigational and utopian practice, Archizoom pioneered the Florentine Radical movement, as well as serving as a central voice of the Radical Architecture movement. Although it only existed as a formal office for less than a decade, its inventive concepts and ideas retain an esteemed status today and are ubiquitous topics covered in design and architectural curricula, and many of the studio’s works are highly collectable, appearing in prominent museum collections around the world.

Their first seminal project came in the form of an exhibition entitled Superarchitettura , created in collaboration with Superstudio, another Florence-based design firm; the collaborators presented prototypes of innovative furnishings alongside colourful projections to create an immersive and surreal environment. The following year, Archizoom organised a second exhibition, titled Superarchitettura 2 , progressively gaining more attention. It was shortly after this that the office brought on two new members, the designers Dario and Lucia Bartolini. This new creative energy spurred on Archizoom’s output dramatically, challenging Italian design customs further while reflecting the sensibilities of the Pop Art age.

Through their experimental practice, Archizoom’s members established new guidelines for art, architecture, and design and the ways in which all three could be integrated into modern life. Perhaps most exemplary of this ethos is their exhibition No-Stop City , installed in 1970, which applies their unique design approach to the realm of the modern metropolis. Offering a unique vision of urbanisation, the project was a theoretical endeavour, first appearing as a detailed plan published in Casabella magazine in 1970 with the name “City, assembly line of social issues, ideology and theory of the metropolis.” In this city without architecture and its aesthetic value, humans live in a continuous flow of information, markets and services, and routinely use nature to create and decorate their environments.

Alongside their directional exhibitions, the practice created numerous pieces of influential furniture over the years. Some of the most significant designs include the Superonda Sofa , 1966, designed by Andrea Branzi, first made from foam and vinyl and later produced with polyurethane blocks cut into two S-shape parts that can be utilised in multiple configurations; the Safari Sofa , 1966-68, which was made by inserting a semicircle with 6 upholstered seats into a lacquered fiberglass square; and the now infamous Mies Chair , 1969, which brought together the chrome frame employed in the modernist Mies chair along with cowhide elements used by Corbusier, subverting them to comment on dominant consumer tastes of the time.

In 1972, the exhibition Italy: The New Domestic Landscap e at New York’s Museum of Modern Art brought an abundance of new eyes to Archizoom’s work, propelling the practice to international repute. Unfettered by classification or medium, the collaborators investigated the possibilities of Radical design across numerous disciplines. Ultimately though, their individual quests for progression led to the group’s dismembering in 1974 as the members moved on to pursue their respective practices. Their output continues to be influential today, appearing on syllabuses and moodboards alike. Most recently, earlier this year, concluding April 2020, Archizoom’s work was featured at the exhibition Radical: Italian Design 1965-1985 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.   Feature image: Archizoom Associati, No-Stop City, Internal Landscapes , 1970. From La Periferia Domestica / Images via Pinterest

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Very Rare Safari Lounge Sofa, Archizoom Associati 1968

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• Creator : Archizoom Associati (Designer)
• Dimensions : Height: 26.38 in (67 cm) Width: 102.37 in (260 cm) Depth: 84.65 in (215 cm) Seat Height: 14.97 in (38 cm)
• Style : Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)
• Materials and Techniques : Fiberglass
• Place of Origin : Italy
• Period : Mid-20th Century
• Date of Manufacture : 1968
• Condition : Excellent Reupholstered. Wear consistent with age and use.
• Seller Location : Rovereta, SM
• Reference Number : 1stDibs: LU3757329388082 View Invoice

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