292 HILL HOUSE 1 Ash chair

292 HILL HOUSE 1 is an iconic chair reflects Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s style and his fearless approach to the most challenging manufacturing processes.‎ Originally a furnishing accessory for one of Mackintosh’s major design projects, Hill House in Helensburgh, near Glasgow, Scotland, from which its name derives.‎ The linear, geometric form is evocative of the minimal, abstract lines of Japanese graphics, which confer symbolic and figurative symbolic value to the piece’s striking visual impact.‎ This piece is seen by many critics as not only a chair but also a veritable treatise on the way space can be articulated.‎ The tall back is defined by a succession of vertical lines that are topped with a grid of verticals and horizontals.‎ Thanks to the mastery of the furnitire makers of Meda, in the Brianza area north of Milan, Cassina has re-issued the Hill House chair, which is available in black-stain ashwood, with a velvet seat-cushion.‎ Structure/Legs: Structure in massive ash wood.‎ Finishing: stained black, matt transparent open pore finishing.‎ Seat: Massive beech wood frame with crossed elastic bands.‎ Polyurethane foam and cover in exclusive velvet in lavander or oil green.‎