Lierna

The Castiglioni brothers, Achille and Pier Giacomo, named the Lierna chair after a town on Lake Como. The project is based on rigorous design, and fits into the ambit of reflections on functionalism starting with traditional chair types. Although the structure of Lierna is in lacquered solid wood, the chair is actually very light. Thanks to the experimental approach of the Castiglioni brothers, applied to create a very solid chair in spite of its slender forms, Lierna is an excellent example of the correspondence between form and function, free of virtuoso gestures but defining a new totally Italian interpretation of the Modern.