Aldo Jacober, the Italian folding chair

Aldo Jacober (born 1939) is an Italian architect and designer whose name is above all associated with one piece that became iconic: the Trieste folding chair, designed in 1966 for Bazzani. A seat in beech and ash plywood, foldable in a single gesture, which stows away like a book once closed. Hailed from its launch at the Milan Salon and awarded the Italian national furniture competition, it equipped Italian and international interiors during the Seventies, and is now in the MoMA and Centre Pompidou collections.

The Trieste folding chair from Bazzani remains Aldo Jacober's signature piece. An Italian vintage chair to find for those wanting a practical, ingenious seat historically rooted in the heart of 1960s Italian design.