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title: "Chairs that mean the world"
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description: "Industrial designer Odoardo Fioravanti created the wooden \"Frida\" chair for Italian furniture-maker Pedrali – and last year it won the \"Compasso d'Oro\", the ..."
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# Chairs that mean the world

Chairs that mean the world

von | Apr 2, 2012

Industrial designer Odoardo Fioravanti created the wooden "Frida" chair for Italian furniture-maker Pedrali – and last year it won the "Compasso d'Oro", the design Oscar. Today, "Frida" is to be found in several renowned Design Museums worldwide. Moreover you will find Pedrali's products in a series of outstanding international reference projects.

For example, Pedrali's best is present at the Salewa Headquarters in Bolzano (designed by Cino Zucchi Architetti and Park Associati) just as it is in the Bocconi University in Mailand (designed by Grafton Architects) and in the Kanazawa Umimirai Library in Kanazawa City (Japan) the brainchild of Coelacanth K&H Architects.

Based not far outside Bergamo, the company with a turnover of 62 Million Euro in 2011 manufactures exclusively inside its own production facilities in Italy and holds an important position in the international design world.

You'll find Pedrali at the Salone del Mobile in Milan (from April 17-22) in Hall 6 at booth D33, E26.

[www.pedrali.it](http://www.pedrali.it/)

![](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/articles/2012/chairs-that-mean-the-world/l2_v331482_958_480_445-2.jpg) Salewa Headquarter in Bozen, Italy | Photo © Alberto Sinigaglia

![](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/articles/2012/chairs-that-mean-the-world/l2_v331482_958_480_320-4.jpg) Luigi Bocconi University in Milan, Italy | Photo © Pedrali

![](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/articles/2012/chairs-that-mean-the-world/l2_v331482_958_480_320-6.jpg) Luigi Bocconi University in Milan, Italy | Photo © Pedrali

![](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/articles/2012/chairs-that-mean-the-world/l2_v331482_958_480_320-8.jpg) Umimirai Library Kanazawa City, Japan | Photo © Satoshi Asakawa

![](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/articles/2012/chairs-that-mean-the-world/l2_v331482_958_480_686-10.jpg)

![](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/articles/2012/chairs-that-mean-the-world/l2_v331482_958_480_380-1.jpg) Pedrali Headquarter, Mornico al Serio, Bergamo | Photo © Pedrali

![](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/articles/2012/chairs-that-mean-the-world/l2_v331482_958_480_360-3.jpg) MYA Chair and TOGO Table at Salewa Headquarter in Bozen, Italy | Photo © Andrea Martiradonna

![](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/articles/2012/chairs-that-mean-the-world/l2_v331482_958_480_720-5.jpg) SNOW Chair and KUADRO Table at Luigi Bocconi University in Milan, Italy | Photo © Pedrali

![](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/articles/2012/chairs-that-mean-the-world/l2_v331482_958_480_320-7.jpg) Umimirai Library Kanazawa City, Japan | Photo © Satoshi Asakawa

![](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/articles/2012/chairs-that-mean-the-world/l2_v331482_958_480_320-9.jpg) Pedrali's YOUNG Chair in Umimirai Library Kanazawa City, Japan | Photo © Satoshi Asakawa

![](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/articles/2012/chairs-that-mean-the-world/l2_v331482_958_480_320-11.jpg) Umimirai Library Kanazawa City, Japan | Photo © Satoshi Asakawa