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IL POLTRONE Lounge Chair by Ammanati & Vitelli for Comfort, 70's
By Comfort, Italy, Titina Ammannati and Giampiero Vitelli
Located in Outremont, QC
Il Poltrone Lounge Chair by Titiana Ammanati & Giampiero Vitelli for Comfort, 70's Features dark brown leather cushions and a fibreglass base...
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1970s Italian Modern Vintage Comfort, Italy Furniture

Materials

Leather, Fiberglass

Super Rare Pair of Joe Colombo 'Sella 1001' Lounge Chairs by Comfort 1963 Italy
By Joe Colombo, Comfort, Italy
Located in bergen op zoom, NL
Extreme rare pair of lounge chairs model "Sella 1001" design by Joe Colombo and manufactured by Comfort Italy, 1963 The chairs are in all original condition with their original car...
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1960s Italian Space Age Vintage Comfort, Italy Furniture

Materials

Steel

Joe Colombo for Comfort Lounge Chair 'Elda' in Brown Leather and Fiberglass
By Joe Colombo, Comfort, Italy
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Joe Colombo for Comfort, lounge chair ‘Elda’, fiberglass, red leather, Italy, design 1963 The ‘Elda’ chair is one of the most well-known designs of Italian designer Joe Colombo. Thi...
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1960s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Comfort, Italy Furniture

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Leather, Fiberglass

Lounge Chair Titina Ammanati and Vitelli Giampiero for Comfort, 1970s
By Comfort, Italy, Titina Ammanati
Located in amstelveen, NL
Comfort lounge chair as part of the 175 series designed by T. Ammanati and G.P. Vitelli. Reupholstered in a stunning textured Zinc fabric. With steel grey molded acrylic base. Super ...
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1970s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Comfort, Italy Furniture

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Fabric, Fiberglass

Elda Lounge Chair by Joe Colombo for Comfort, Italy 1960s
By Joe Colombo, Comfort, Italy
Located in Lasne, BE
Swivel armchair in beige leather and black shell by Joe Colombo. Elda model. Seat height 38cm. Wear due to time and age of armchair.
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Comfort, Italy Furniture

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Leather, Fiberglass

Joe Colombo for Comfort Lounge Chair 'Elda' in Red Leather and Fiberglass
By Joe Colombo, Comfort, Italy
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Joe Colombo for Comfort, lounge chair ‘Elda’, fiberglass, red leather, Italy, design 1963, later production The ‘Elda’ chair is one of the most well-known designs of Italian design...
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1960s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Comfort, Italy Furniture

Materials

Leather, Fiberglass

Vintage space age Rodica chair by Mario Brunu for Comfort, Italy 1968.
By Comfort, Italy, Mario Brunu
Located in Haderslev, DK
Elevate your living space with the timeless elegance of the 'Rodica' lounge chair, a mid-century masterpiece designed by Mario Bruno for Comfort Italy. Crafted with exquisite attenti...
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1960s Italian Space Age Vintage Comfort, Italy Furniture

Materials

Leather, Fiberglass

Elda Lounge Chair In Black Leather By Joe Colombo For Comfort Italy 1970s
By Joe Colombo, Comfort, Italy
Located in ABCOUDE, UT
Iconic design chair by top designer Joe Colombo. The Elda chairs were produced by Comfort Italy from the early 60s. The rotating white fiberglass shell gives the chair a clean look a...
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1960s Vintage Comfort, Italy Furniture

Materials

Leather, Fiberglass

Joe Colombo "Elda" Armchair for Comfort
By Joe Colombo, Comfort, Italy
Located in Carpi, IT
Introducing the iconic "Elda" armchair – a marvel of Italian design by Joe Colombo (1930-1971) in 1963. Its avant-garde appeal was truly ahead of its time. Adorned in a sleek grey le...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Comfort, Italy Furniture

Materials

Leather

Poltrona 'Elda' Joe Colombo per Comfort, 1965
By Joe Colombo, Comfort, Italy
Located in Milano, IT
Iconica poltrona modello 'Elda', disegnata da Joe Colombo e prodotta da Comfort a partire dal 1965. Struttura e scocca in fibra di vetro, seduta e schienale rivestiti da cuscini in ...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Comfort, Italy Furniture

Materials

Leather

Joe Colombo 'Elda' Lounge Chair, White Leather and Fibreglass, by Comfort, Italy
By Joe Colombo, Comfort, Italy
Located in Wargrave, Berkshire
The Elda Chair was designed by Joe Colombo in 1965 and named after his wife. He conceived the idea of making a chair frame from fibreglass after visiting a boatyard. At the height of...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Comfort, Italy Furniture

Materials

Leather, Fiberglass

Elda Lounge Chair by Joe Colombo for Comfort, Italy, 1960s
By Comfort, Italy, Joe Colombo
Located in Lasne, BE
Swivel armchair in red leather and white shell. Seat height 40cm. Wear due to time and age.
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Comfort, Italy Furniture

Materials

Metal

Vintage Iconic Joe Colombo Elda Armchair, Italian Space Age, White Leather
By Joe Colombo, Comfort, Italy
Located in Milano, IT
It’s 1963, Space Age is at its dawn, and Italian architect Joe Colombo designs a piece that will define the aesthetics of the era: we’re of course talking of the Elda chair, named af...
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1960s Italian Space Age Vintage Comfort, Italy Furniture

Materials

Leather, Fiberglass

Titina Ammanati and Giam Paolo Vitelli Lounge Chair for Comfort, 1970s
By Comfort, Italy
Located in PEGO, ES
Lounge chair by Titina Ammanati and Giam Paolo Vitelli for Comfort, Italy, 1970s. IL Poltrone model lounge chair by T. Ammanati & G.P. Vitelli in the ea...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Comfort, Italy Furniture

Materials

Leather, Fiberglass

Vintage iconic Joe Colombo Elda armchair, Italian Space Age 1960s, Black Leather
By Joe Colombo, Comfort, Italy
Located in Milano, IT
It’s 1963, Space Age is at its dawn, and Italian architect Joe Colombo designs a piece that will define the aesthetics of the era: we’re of course talking of the Elda chair, named af...
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1960s Italian Space Age Vintage Comfort, Italy Furniture

Materials

Leather, Fiberglass

Joe Colombo ‘Elda’ Lounge Chair in Cognac Leather and Black Fiberglass
By Comfort, Italy, Joe Colombo
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Joe Colombo for Comfort, lounge chair model ‘Elda’, fiberglass, leather, Italy, design 1963, later production. The ‘Elda’ chair is one of the most well-known designs of Italian desi...
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1960s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Comfort, Italy Furniture

Materials

Leather, Fiberglass

Il Poltrone 175 Series by Ammannati & Vitelli, 1973
By Comfort, Italy, Titina Ammannati and Giampiero Vitelli
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Il Poltrone lounge chair as part of the i Potoni 175 series designed by T. Ammannati and G.P. Vitelli. Dark grey leather with steel grey molded acrylic bas...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Comfort, Italy Furniture

Materials

Metal

Joe Colombo Swivel "Elda" Italian Lounge Chair
By Joe Colombo, Comfort, Italy
Located in Vienna, AT
Lounge chair designed by Joe Colombo (1930-1971) in 1963 model "Elda"for Comfort. Made of fiberglass structure reupholstered with ivory Dedar bouclé fabric which make it very unique....
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1960s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Comfort, Italy Furniture

Materials

Bouclé, Fiberglass

IL Poltrone Lounge Chair by Ammanati and Vitelli for Comfort, Italy, 1973
By Comfort, Italy, Titina Ammannati and Giampiero Vitelli
Located in Pijnacker, Zuid-Holland
Model Il Poltrone lounge chair by T. Ammanti & G.P. Vitelli for Comfort, 1973. This chair is part of the 175 series by comfort and is a model in the line ...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Comfort, Italy Furniture

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Leather, Fiberglass

Unique Organic Italian Leather Lounge Chair by Comfortline
By Comfort, Italy
Located in East Hampton, NY
Expertly restored and reupholstered in fine leather (camel tone), this vintage 1960s unique and sculptural Italian chair by Comfortline, Italia rocks and sits adults comfortably. Ori...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Comfort, Italy Furniture

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Leather

Il Poltrone lounge chairs by T. Ammannati and G.P. Vitelli for Comfort in Italy
By Comfort, Italy, Titina Ammannati and Giampiero Vitelli
Located in HEVERLEE, BE
Vintage Il Poltrone Lounge chairs designed for Comfort in Italy as part of the Il Poltoni 175 series by T. Ammannati and G.P. Vitelli in 1973. Comes with the original brown leather...
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1970s Italian Space Age Vintage Comfort, Italy Furniture

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Leather, Fiberglass

Sofa with Wheels Comfort by Cesare Casati, Italy
By Cesare Casati, Comfort, Italy
Located in Milan, Italy
A beautiful sofa with wheels with three seats, structure in fiberglass with leather cover designed by Cesare Casati and produced by Comfort in circa 1...
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1960s Italian Modern Vintage Comfort, Italy Furniture

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Leather, Fiberglass

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There are some scuffs to the leather skin which are hardly noticeable and to be expected from a chair over 60 years old. The cushions are in perfect condition. There is a small chip at the very base of the shell on the back which I have illustrated in one of the images apart from that it's in very good condition. The chair specifically the lower base section is very heavy where it is weighted to ensure it's counter-balanced whenever anyone is sitting in it. It does not wobble at all and spins around and around freely. An interesting piece from Architectural Digest about the background of the chair and why it's a favourite with designers: "After Italian designer Joe Colombo visited a shipyard in 1963 that made fiberglass hulls for boats, inspiration struck: Why not use that same hand-molding technique for the base of a chair? The results—a roomy, futuristic armchair in which seven detachable cushions hook into a molded plastic shell on a rotating base—would become an icon. He named it after his wife, Elda. Colombo moved a white fiberglass and black leather model—produced by Italian brand Comfort in 1965—into his own Milan apartment. And soon, after the design debuted at the Eurodomus 1 fair in Genoa, others followed suit. The strange chair (further documented in Joe Colombo: Designer: Catalogue Raisonné 1962–2020, a new publication by Silvana Editoriale) captured the 1960s space-age sensibility of fashion designers like Paco Rabanne and Pierre Cardin, and was on its way to the silver screen, where AD100 designer Luis Laplace first saw it. “In the 1969 film Hibernatus, a man sitting in the Elda armchair explains the challenges and benefits of hibernation,” recalls Laplace of his early-childhood encounter with the seat. He and partner Christophe Comoy now live with one in Paris. Elda went on to star in the 1977 Bond flick The Spy Who Loved Me, in the 1970s series Space: 1999, and in the 2012 movie The Hunger Games, proving Laplace’s point: “It oozes power.” The appeal is wide-ranging. Designer Hollie Bowden, who snapped up a worn-in Elda in Morocco for a project in Ibiza, calls it “super comfy and quite bosslike.” Meanwhile, designer Jonathan Adler, who lives with one in his Manhattan home, calls the seat “a strange mix of plastic futurism and organic brainlike channel upholstery in a commanding scale.” Or, as he has deemed it, “executive squish.” Dimensions: W: 95cm D: 92cm H: 93cm Seat Height: 40cm I ALSO HAVE ANOTHER IDENTICAL 'ELDA' CHAIR IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A PAIR LISTED ON THE RETRO LIVING WEBSITE. Some information about the designer Joe Columbo from 1st Dibs "He died tragically young, and his career as a designer lasted little more than 10 years. 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Rodica Lounge Chair by Mario Brunu for Comfort, Italy, 1968
By Comfort, Italy, Mario Brunu
Located in HEVERLEE, BE
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Rodica Lounge Chair by Mario Brunu for Comfort Italy, 1968
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Elda Lounge Chair in Red Leather by Joe Colombo for Comfort Italy 1970s
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Leather, Fiberglass

Comfort, Italy furniture for sale on 1stDibs.

Comfort, Italy furniture are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of leather and are designed with extraordinary care. There are many options to choose from in our collection of Comfort, Italy furniture, although black editions of this piece are particularly popular. Many of the original furniture by Comfort, Italy were created in the mid-century modern style in europe during the 20th century. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider furniture by Elam, Archizoom Associati, and Stilwood. Prices for Comfort, Italy furniture can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $2,214 and can go as high as $20,000, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $10,520.

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