Enzo Mari

Enzo Mari (April 27, 1932 – October 19, 2020) was an Italian modernist artist and furniture designer. He was inspired by the arts and crafts movement, and his political views as a communist. Mari was born in Novara, Italy.

In the 1970s, he founded the Nuova Tendenza art movement as a professor at Società Umanitaria, also in Milan.  Also in that decade, he designed the Sof Sof chair and the "Box" chair.

Mari died on October 19, 2020 in Milan from COVID-19 at the age of 88.Morto Enzo Mari, icona del design italiano e mondiale 

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