On Monday May 17th Moss celebrated the fiftieth birthday of Zanotta with a special tribute to that company's long-time heroes, Achille and PierGiacomo Castiglioni. Our Anniversary exhibition honors the Castiglioni brothers' iconic Mezzadro stool, the quintessential "found object". Created in 1957 and first put into production by Zanotta in 1970, the sharecropper tractor seat is described by Stefano Casciani in his book, Furniture as Architecture, as "both the most successful formal provocation expressed by Italian design and, at the same time, the negation of the very idea of design". Moss commissioned 50 stools, each in a different spectacular color. The series is signed and numbered.
Here are images of the exhibit being installed, and of the finished exhibition.
To begin, we built a large quarter pipe ramp, perfect for skateboarding. And stools.
 Kevin, surrounded, wrestles a stool to the ground.
 Halfway to heaven, stool-wise.
 Numbering the stools. This is Chris's favorite, number 19.
 We showed 49 of the 50 stools on the ramp. 7 rows x 7 columns.
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The stools were once proposed as stadium seating, an idea that was never realized. Our exhibit suggests what that might have looked like.
It's really all about the structure, no?
Very very close to almost beginning to think about putting the first stool on the ramp.
Stephen accuses Chris of stoolishness.
Stools in the sky.
This edition of 50 stools was created exclusively for moss.
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