Set of Four Sculptural Rattan Bar Stools by Tito Agnoli for Bonacina

Set of four rare bar stools in very good condition.

Designed by Tito Agnoli in the 1950s

Manufactured by Bonacina, Italy.

These high quality stools were handcrafted with natural materials.

The Rattan base has an elegant form which elegantly connects the seat with the distinctive footrest.

The seats are reupholstered in a thick woolen bouclé fabric.

Tito Agnoli was born into an Italian family, in Lima, Peru, in 1931. He came to Italy after the war. Trained as a painter (having studied with Sironi), in 1949 he enrolled in the Faculty of Architecture, where he graduated in 1959 and was assistant to Gio Ponti and to Carlo De Darli. However, even in the early Fifties, he was already carrying out an intense professional activity in the field of design. He has created projects for, among others, Arflex, Cinova, Lema, Matteo Grassi, Molteni, Montina, Oluce, Pierantonio Bonacina, Poltrona Frau, Schiffini, Ycami. Several times recommended for the Compasso d’Oro (Golden Compass) Award, in 1986 he won the gold medal at the Neocon in Chicago. Some of his pieces are kept in the permanent collection of the MoMa in New York. He died in Milan on February 2012.