Utopia: Lost and Found 
1 April 2008
Utopia: Lost and Found 
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Alberto Meda

prototype Light-Light chair

Alias
Italy, 1988
carbon fiber 27¾ h × 20½ w × 17 d in (70 × 52 × 43 cm)
estimate: $9,000–12,000
result: $10,200
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Meda's Light-Light chair weighs less than 2.2 lbs. Experimenting with composite materials and thus difficult to produce, approximately fifty examples of this chair were made. Signed with applied metal label to underside: [Alias Srl Italia Lightlight- 1988 Prototipo Sperimentale N.10 Design Alberto Meda].
exhibited: Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
literature: 100 Masterpieces from the Vitra Design Museum Collection, von Vegesack, ppg. 54-55 Poetic Engineering, Azure Nov/Dec 2006, Minutillo, pg. 78

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