1968 Boomerang Armchair by Rodolfo Bonetto

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Ended:September 12th 2017, 12:00pm EDT

Winner: caterinag

€1,000($1,067 USD)

Charity percentage

80%

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Charity percentage

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The Prize

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Win this exclusive single-seater armchair with a back pocket. Boomerang has a steel internal structure lined with polyurethane foam padding, covered in fabric.

A modular couch can be created by putting several pieces together. This armchair is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

This item has been made available for the 2017 Fuoricinema event.

Materials:

Steel structure
Polyurethane foam padding, density 35
Boomerang lateral profiles and chrome-plated steel screws
Steel and rubber feet

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The Cause

The art4sport nonprofit is an Italian organization that believes in sports as therapy for both physical and psychological recovery for children and young people with artificial limbs and prostheses.

Its mission is to economically aid the families of children with prostheses and provide practical/organizational support so the children can play and have fun through sports in their everyday lives.

The art4sport association is inspired by the story of Bebe - Beatrice Vio, who at the age of 11, sadly lost all four of her limbs. Despite this, she returned to her former life within a year, motivated by the desire to practice fencing. Bebe’s family thus looked into sports prostheses and sports equipment for children with this type of disability and found a disconcerting lack of support from the Italian National Health Care System.

Out of this shortcoming came art4sport, an association that could act as a point of reference for her and other children with the same problems and the same wish to play sports.

Website

art4sport.org

Item #L3164

In condition as donated.

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