ANTONIO CITTERIO

AC4 2008 

ID CHAIR CONCEPT 

Antonio Citterio, born 1950 in Meda, Italy, is the designer of DesignReasons' exceptionally confortable and visually appealing office chairs, also known as task chairs.  He studied architecture at the Milan Polytechnic. In 1972 he began work as a designer and consultant in the field of industrial design, before joining Terry Dwan as a partner at Studio Citterio/Dwan from 1987-96.

He held a teaching position at the Domus Academy in Milan from 1990-92 and was an external examiner for the Furniture Design course at the Royal College of London from 1993-95, before becoming a docent at La Sapienza University in Rome in 1997.

Together with Patricia Viel, he founded the multidisciplinary office Antonio Citterio and Partners in Milan in 1999, and from 1999 to 2002 he also taught on the architectural faculty at the Università della Svizzera Italiana. He resumed a position on the faculty of this university in 2006.

Presently, DesignReasons was able to obtain Citterio's designs through his Producer Vitra and offer it to you.  So look for ID Concepts Office Chairs and AC4 Office Chairs under Task Chairs and you will get a pleasant surprise.

Projects:  Projects for Vitra:

2008 Production facilities, Neuenburg, Germany

Exhibitions:

2000 "50 Years of Italian and German Design", Bonn

1999 "Antonio Citterio & Partners. Progetti di architettura. 4 case e 4 uffici", Milan