Conceived by designers Oscar and Gabriele Buratti, Abby with or without armrests is a dining armchair featuring careful tailoring and soft, welcoming shapes.
The frame is in solid ash or Canaletta walnut wood and can be declined in the various finishes of the collection. It accommodates four slender legs that provide support and make the entire seat ergonomic, also accentuated by the presence of armrests. Abby elegant dining chair is extremely versatile thanks to the availability of different covers in the fabrics of the collection for the seat and the back. Abby’s unique style offers the possibility to place this piece in several domestic settings, both contemporary and classic.
Gabriele Buratti, architect and professor of interior architecture at the Design department of Politecnico di Milano and Oscar Buratti, architect, together founded the BURATTI ARCHITETTI studio. The Studio has a multidisciplinary practice, which covers buildings and urban areas, architecture to interiors, furniture and object design, as well as design of exhibitions and showrooms. An intense and varied professional path in which themes, places and typologies, brands and people, materials and craftsmanship, mingle together. Buratti brothers share with Porada the intention of combining culture and professional specialization, experimentation and technique, original visions, and product quality.
Porada
Everything ‘s born from the love of wood. The solid wood, worked with the craftsmanship of those who know how to turn a log into a piece of artwork. Porada has its origin in this passion. It was established in 1968 by Luigi Allievi with the aim of expanding the production of chairs, started in 1948.
The Porada collection is wide and varied, made up of a multitude of occasional furniture developed in cooperation with designers as Marconato and Zappa, Carlo Ballabio, David Dolcini, Emmanuel Gallina, Patrick Jouin, Tarcisio Colzani, Staffan Tollgard, Studio Opera, Gino Carollo, Dainelli Sudio and Studio Buratti among the others.