Opinion Ciatti - Pepe stool in natural leather

Pepe is immense expanses and infinite horizons. Pepper is the smell of the wind, the scent of the earth.

Pepe is a seat that in the form takes that of the riding saddle. Designed by Raffaella Mangiarotti, Pepe has sinuous lines, a steel structure and a fine leather cover sewn by hand.
Pepe has a strong character and a strong temperament. Pepe  promises to enhance the spaces, as it does with the dishes the spice of which it bears the name.
At ease alone, in the center of the scene, or around a table, in front of a desk.

A furnishing accessory decidedly evocative but not less pragmatic. Pepe guarantees comfort and ergonomics thanks to the sled base that accompanies the inclination and consequently promotes a correct posture.
An identity piece suitable for multiple contexts: convivial and leisure areas, lounges, workplaces or our homes. Wherever you feel the need for a session that is peppery, intense and immediate, surprising and lasting.
Pepe was awarded at the Archiproducts Design Awards 2021 in the Furniture category for being a perfect mix of production technique, quality, aesthetics and creativity.

Raffaella Mangiarotti

Raffaella Mangiarotti is an architect and designer. Born in Genoa, she lives and works in Milan. He graduated with honors in Architecture with Tomàs Maldonado at Politecnico di Milano, in 1994 he obtained a doctorate in Environmental Design. After collaborating with Marco Zanuso and Francesco Trabucco, he started designing innovative products for large international companies including Whirlpool, Smeg, NEC, Panasonic, Nestlé, Mercedes Benz. Over the years he specialized in furniture and creative direction and follows important projects with various brands of design.

In his career he has won some of the leading design awards and his products have been exhibited in museums in both collective and personal exhibitions. Some of his pieces have become part of permanent collections, among which the MoMA in New York stands out.

Opinion Ciatti

Opinion Ciatti is a company founded in 1950 in Florence that produces accessories and design furnishing including bookcases, tables and chairs; for the home, work and common spaces. A wide range of concrete and very identifiable objects, able with their presence, their touch, to characterise an atmosphere, personalise an environment. It all begins with an intuition of Rolando Ciatti. As a curious and attentive observer of a world that is changing so fast around him, he understands that a place in the house must be found for that strange, new object – the television - which was about to shake the Italians habit. That’s how Ciatti was founded, in Borgo San Frediano, in Florence Oltrarno, as the first company in Italy to produce TV benches. In 2003  the Ciatti family meets Bruno Rainaldi. Along they found CCR design, a new company focused on the development of home objects and accessories. Under the art direction of Mr Rainaldi, important names in Italian design start creating storage objects, chairs, mirrors, all characterized by a strong and bold personality. In 2004, Original Ptolomeo, the free-standing bookshelf by Bruno Rainaldi, wins the Compasso d’Oro award. Basic but revolutionary, new and with a great impact, as sudden as an intuition; Ptolomeo soon becomes the company’s best-selling item and an icon of contemporary design.