PAN-ITALIANISM

The Lilo chaise longue exemplifies the way Italy reimagines various global ideas through its particular aesthetic prism, balancing elegance of form with comfort. Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola conceived the Lilo line partly as a homage to Scandinavian design and modernist ideas of the 1950s. The chaise’s materials speak to this. However, the chunky volume of its base was influenced by Achille Castiglioni, while the segmented reclining seat feels more generously upholstered than Scandinavian seating and less overstuffed than the Brazilian version (think Sergio Rodrigues’s cushy, sink-into chairs). The result is an amalgam that’s old and new, from here and there, but unquestionably Italian in the sum of its parts. moroso.it