To celebrate 25 years of collaboration between Paola Lenti and Francesco Rota we have planned a series of events at our best partners’ shops worldwide: the first takes place in Vienna, Friday 6 October, in the rooms of Paola Lenti Wien by Kramer und Kramer, the Austrian flagship store opened last May in Palais Harrach, a baroque building in the city center.
Francesco Rota was invited to talk about his partnership with the company: twenty-five years of research, discoveries and innovations that gave rise to a long sequence of iconic products with an unmistakable profile, such as Linea, Ami, Frame, Wave, Sabi and Harbour, up to the more recent Filo and Kiori.
Paola Lenti starts in the indoor furniture world with the Milanese designer in 1998. Five years later, in 2003, the company officially entered the outdoor realm as well, once more with his collaboration. It is to honor these important milestones in the company’s almost thirty-year entrepreneurial history that the Vienna event will also be the perfect opportunity to unveil to the Austrian market – in a renewed guise – the two seats that represented them the most: the Linea and Wave chaises longues. The first one in an original “dress” made of printed felt from the 90s, the second, hand-woven in Twitape, an exclusive latest-generation, outdoor technical material.
Two versions of the same seating – one for indoors, the other for outdoors – results of that vision, shared between company and designer, which gifted an unmistakable mark to many of the company’s collections since the beginning.
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