Sacco 1968Designed by: Gatti & Paolini & Teodoro Manufactured by: ZanottaDesigned by Piero Gatti, Cesare Paolini, and Franco Teodoro in 1968, the Sacco lounge chair is perhaps one of the most iconic furniture designs of the late 1960s. As its name suggests, Sacco is a “sac” of joined textile panels that has been filled with highly-resistant expanded polystyrene pellets. Unlike fixed chairs or seating, Sacco actually conforms to the specific user’s form – quite literally functioning as a chair only when there is a sitter. It’s fabulously enigmatic form functions as a playful sculpture when not in use – its lightweight composition allows it to be easily moved around a space. Sacco is available in its original size along with Zanotta’s newer versions of Medium and Small. The latter is ideal for use in a children’s room or play space.Sacco is included in the permanent collections of 27 museums worldwide. It’s available in a number of different solid and patterned textiles – leather is also an option. Zanotta’s recently introduced, popular Vip textile is available in nine solid colors and can even be used outdoors. Please contact us to review these options. Learn more about the Sacco chair's history by clicking here.Anatomical easy-chairs. Envelope containing highly resistant expanded polystyrene pellets, available in 3 different sizes. Cover in Vip (for outdoor), Volo, Pied de poule and leather. The version in Pied de poule is removable. The model in Volo fabric is available with two digital printed decorations: respectively Big eyes and Solid decorations for the Sacco Small, Solid and Up decorations for the Sacco Medium and Sacco. The Vip fabric is also for outdoor, fire-resistant, antibacterial with Silverguard ® treatment and stain-proof with Permablock 3® treatment.Anatomical easy-chairs Envelope containing highly resistant expanded polystyrene pellets, available in 3 different sizes. Cover in: in Vip (for outdoor), Volo, Pied de poule and leather. The version in Pied de poule is removable. The model in Volo fabric is available with two digital printed decorations: respectively Big eyes and Solid decorations for the Sacco Small, Solid and Up decorations for the Sacco Medium and Sacco. The Vip fabric is also for outdoor, fireresistant, antibacterial with Silverguard ® treatment and stain-proof with Permablock 3® treatment.Icons of Italian design After fifty years, what is there left to write about one of the icons of Italian design that, still today, communicates the absolute strength of ideas – that is, when such strength really exists? Nowhere, in the written history of design, is this object not positioned among the top ten icons that changed the perspective of our beloved field forever and for everyone.Perhaps we can add that – beyond the desecrating gesture of filling a sack (Sacco) with polystyrene balls in order to transform it into the most informal, most versatile, most irreverent, most freeing, most soft, most ergonomic and ‘most’ everything chair – there is no defined shape. It is for this very reason that it has survived, untouched by time, through seasons, fashions and every ‘ism’ imaginable, preserving the greatest value of all: being a concept that well beyond the seasons, arriving undamaged to the present day, is ready to be adapted into versions for children and teenagers, because to encourage smiles and fun even while sitting in an ‘armchair’ is not a luxury reserved for adults. The armchair Sacco by Gatti, Paolini and Teodoro is one of the most meaningful example of design product able to embody an “era”, while “contaminating” the living conventions that apparently look very formal.