As an expert interior designer in Seattle, I seek Sunday inspiration in the NY Times.I chuckled today when I saw this image of the UP5 chair from B & B Italia in an ad. Here’s the description from the manufacturer, “The UP Series was designed in 1969 by Gaetano Pesce and has remained an iconic design piece for almost 40 years. The UP5 chair, known for the striking representation of feminine strength and struggle, continues to be meaningful and relevant. It reflects a world-sensibility with symbolism, irony and beauty and is truly the epitome of timeless design.”

In the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the label for the chair and ottoman reads:

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The chair that made Pesce famous in 1969, Up 5 is largely characteristic of the designer’s unique philosophy, imbuing personality into his designs through unconventional materials. Up 5 not only has an organic look and feel-the whole piece literally “grows” into form when unwrapped from its tight vacuum seal. It comes as no surprise, then, that Up 5evokes a mother’s womb and that opening its package becomes an event similar to birth. Pesce has cleverly applied polyurethane, a highly synthetic material, as a metaphor for one of the most precious moments in humanity.

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