<span style="font-weight: bold;">Cini Boeri </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">"strips"</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"Soon after, Boeri created another masterpiece with the Strips sofa, which could be described as either a lounge made from <span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">sections of sleeping bags </span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-size:100%;">or a</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span>bed-sized puffer jacket!</span></span>"</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6085/6030077867_95a93e4248_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6085/6030077867_95a93e4248_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 719px; height: 440px;" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6188/6030631878_7f7e902fd2_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6188/6030631878_7f7e902fd2_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 858px; height: 609px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> <p>"Born in Milan in 1924,<span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>Cini Boer</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">i</span></span> graduated from Milan Polytechnic in 1951 and began a long period of cooperation with Marco Zanuso, founder of Italian furniture firm Arflex. She set up her own studio in 1963, concentrating on civil architecture and industrial design. In 1967, Bobo Divano was released by<a href="http://www.arflex.it/"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Arflex</span></span></a> and became the first mono-block seat in polyurethane foam with no internal structure. The Serpentone, designed in 1971, was another revolutionary sofa made from thin sections of polyurethane articulated around a flexible central core, allowing for free-flowing shapes of unlimited length.</p> <p>Soon after, Boeri created another masterpiece with the Strips sofa, which could be described as either a lounge made from sections of sleeping bags or a bed-sized puffer jacket!</p> <p>The sofa’s impact would prove to be lasting – she eventually won a prestigious Compasso d’Oro industrial design award for it in 1979, and Patricia Urquiola recently stated that her critically acclaimed <span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://style-files.com/images/tuffibank500x397.jpg" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">B&B Italia ‘Tufty-Time</a></span>’ sofa was her homage to Boeri’s Strips sofa.</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.homelife.com.au/home+ideas/decorating/cini+boeri,5610"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">all text taken from here....</span></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />

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