A CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION

2019 marks a year of anniversaries at luxury Italian manufacturer B&B Italia. It celebrates the 50th birthday for the groundbreaking UP 5&6 – a rounded armchair created by design pioneer Gaetano Pesce in 1969 – as well as the 40th year for the classic Diesis sofa, which was made by long-standing collaborator Antonio Citterio.

First launched at the Milan Furniture Fair in 1969, the outstanding and utterly unique UP armchair was initially made from air-sensitive expandable foam, and when removed from its flat-pack box it wowed the crowd as it slowly inflated. spacefurniture. com.au