Poltronova

27/05/2026

IT’S GIVING PLAY + PLEASURE.
(ON A DESIGN ICON) 🖤

Not every design object is made to behave properly.

Joe — designed in 1970 by De Pas, D’Urbino, Lomazzi for Poltronova — transforms a baseball glove into an oversized domestic sculpture somewhere between Pop Art, furniture and visual provocation.

Presented here in vintage leather upholstery, Joe continues to embody the experimental and ironic spirit that has always defined Poltronova’s vision: radical objects designed not only to be used, but to generate interaction, emotion and unexpected relationships with space.

Half furniture, half statement piece.Still playful. Still disruptive. Still impossible to ignore.

Joe is a large armchair in the shape of a baseball glove mounted on invisible wheels. Inspired by the poetics of Pop Art and dedicated to baseball legend Joe DiMaggio, the project transforms an everyday object into an inhabitable sculptural form through a bold shift in scale.

For the fiftieth anniversary of Joe, Poltronova introduced Joe Ball: a leather pouf and footrest shaped like a baseball, designed by D’Urbino and Lomazzi in 2020 as the natural complement to the original armchair.

26/05/2026

Safari, imperial sofa by Archizoom Associati for Poltronova, 1967 🖤

Originally designed in 1967 by Archizoom Associati for Poltronova, Safari transforms the sofa into an open, informal landscape for conversation, rest and collective living.

Conceived during the years of Superarchitettura and radical experimentation, Safari rejects rigid domestic codes in favour of a freer and more fluid way of inhabiting space. Its oversized proportions and soft modular structure turn comfort into attitude.

In this version, the deep black leather upholstery amplifies the object’s sculptural presence, balancing softness and visual intensity. More than a sofa, Safari becomes a platform for gathering, talking, waiting, lounging, existing together.

A timeless icon from the Poltronova collection, still radically contemporary.

19/05/2026

PINK. GLOSSY. GLASS.

Pluriball: coffee table by Andrea Mancuso, 2026



Pluriball is a table that embodies Poltronova’s experimental and ironic spirit, transforming an everyday pop reference into a design object. Its top is created through the fusion of coloured glass circles onto a transparent glass sheet, generating a three-dimensional surface punctuated by chromatic reliefs that recall bubble wrap.

The process involves an initial fusion of the circles onto transparent glass, followed by their pairing with a second coloured glass sheet. This step introduces a tonal variation that enhances depth and the perception of relief, making the surface more vibrant and layered. Rather than adopting a monomaterial solution, the structure is supported by transparent borosilicate glass legs, which visually lighten the object and emphasize its optical dimension.

The table appears to emerge in space, allowing the top to define rhythm, density, and presence. Colour behaves as a stratification, surfacing through the glass and shifting according to light and viewpoint.

The project unfolds as a family of chromatic variations, including Tangerine, Tuscan Green, Sicilia Bronze, and Pink. In this version, the glossy pink tone amplifies the table’s playful and luminous quality, turning the surface into a field of reflections, bubbles, and chromatic depth.

Pluriball thus takes shape as an active surface, where a repeated gesture becomes structure and detail turns into language.

📸 Serena Eller : Eller Studio
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📍Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2026

15/05/2026

🚨 WHITE ZONE. RED SIGNAL.

Domestic space is no longer fixed. It bends, shifts, opens, questions itself.
At Salone del Mobile 2026, Poltronova presented UN—, an unfinished landscape where radical icons and new experiments exist in constant transformation.

Not continuity. An opening. A system returning to experiment.

On display: • Superonda + Sanremo • Archizoom Associati• Crazy Horse • Ettore Sottsass jr.• Gherpe • Superstudio• Cessato Allarme • De Pas, D’Urbino, Lomazzi
…and more.

📍 Salone del Mobile.Milano 2026, April 21–26

📸 Serena Eller Vainicher : Eller Studio

🎨 Exhibition Creative Direction: Donatello D'Angelo

14/05/2026

14/05/2026

GRAPHIC. GEOMETRIC. GESTURE.

Canton: wooden bench by Franco Raggi, 1988

Originally designed by Franco Raggi in 1988, Canton emerges from a graphic gesture transformed into space. A continuous black line draws two squares connected by a horizontal segment; pulled into three dimensions, that abstract sign becomes a bench.

Conceived for temporary use rather than comfort, Canton sacrifices ergonomics in favour of a rigorous, almost neoplastic presence. The structure functions simultaneously as seat and container: the lateral squares open into compartments designed to host books, magazines, objects, and traces of everyday life.

More than furniture, Canton behaves as a spatial drawing. The object retains the immediacy of a sketch while becoming architecture, structure, and image at once.

Canton transforms a simple line into an inhabitable structure: graphic, architectural, and deliberately uncompromising.

📸 Serena Eller : Eller Studio�
📍Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2026

13/05/2026

SIT ON THE LANDSCAPE.

Terrazzo Quarry: seating system by Bethan Laura Wood, 2026



Terrazzo Quarry transforms terrazzo from surface into inhabitable landscape. Conceived as a soft yet monumental seating system, the project unfolds as a cluster of upholstered volumes that can exist as a composed environment or disperse freely throughout space, like fragments of an imaginary quarry.

Developed by Bethan Laura Wood following her residency in a Venetian palazzo, the exclusive upholstery originates from an obsession with the endless variations of traditional terrazzo floors. Here, gemstone-like fragments appear to detach themselves from the aggregate, surfacing as chromatic eruptions across the fabric.

The project blurs the boundary between pattern and architecture, between two-dimensional illusion and physical volume. The elements resemble artificial rocks emerging from a psychedelic terrain, inviting interaction, climbing, gathering, and rest.

Described by the designer as a “super fake” terrazzo, Terrazzo Quarry embraces artifice as language. Material becomes narrative, decoration becomes topography, and the domestic landscape turns into an immersive, playful environment that echoes the radical visions embedded within the Poltronova archive.

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📍Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2026

12/05/2026

BOLD LINES. TIMELESS PRESENCE.

📏 Regolo: armchair/sofa by Gianfranco Fini for Poltronova, 1975

Designed by Gianfranco Fini for Poltronova in 1975, Regolo explores modular seating through clean geometric repetition and generous proportions.

Sofa or armchair, conceived as both function and form, rooted in Fini’s artistic background and architectural approach.

Regolo is now reissued in solid ashwood with upholstery options in linen, recycled wool, and velour.

Designed to live at the center of a room, and to be admired from every angle.

📸 Serena Eller Vainicher : Eller Studio
📍UN—, Salone del Mobile Milano
🗓️ April 21-26th 2026

08/05/2026

PART 2 — Imagery & references

A “super fake” terrazzo.
Gemstones breaking free from the surface.
Rocks from a psychedelic quarry.

Terrazzo Quarry turns decoration into volume, pattern into terrain.
Somewhere between illusion and structure.

More landscape than object.
More fiction than function.

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— Stay tuned for part 3! 💎🪨🫟

07/05/2026

MIRROR, IN THE MIRROR.

A glow too perfect to belong to reality.
Ultrafragola by Ettore Sottsass jr. reflects itself endlessly beside Regolo by Gianfranco Fini and the translucent rhythm of Andrea Mancuso’s Pluriball table.

Liquid pink. Lacquered silence.
Objects that don’t simply furnish a room.
They alter the atmosphere. ✦

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📍 Salone del Mobile 2026