“A new kind of chair, all in leather, today much cloned”. This is how Mario Bellini describes the Cab chair-armchair, a best-seller created in the golden age of Italian design and today an iconic piece of the I Contemporanei collection. Cab is the first chair in the world characterized by a self-supporting leather structure inspired by the relationship between skeleton and leather. Its upholstery is made up of 16 leather parts, punched one by one and subsequently subjected to 14 manual processes. The individual cut parts are in fact sewn together only after having undergone a skiving process aimed at thinning the thickness of the portions to be coupled. The upholstery is then fitted onto a steel skeleton and closed with zips like a tailored suit. In addition to the wide variety of colors for the leather seat, the proposal includes the variant in pigmented leather in shades of black, brown and Bulgarian red.
