Vico Magistretti designed the Maralunga for Cassina in 1973, and it went on to win the Compasso d'Oro — Italy's highest industrial design honor — for a reason simple enough to feel obvious in hindsight: the headrest folds down at the pull of a strap, letting the silhouette shift from an upright lounge chair to a low, reclined one without a single visible mechanism. It's engineering disguised as ease.
This example carries that late-70s design forward in a plush blue mohair reupholstery, the fabric's soft depth catching light differently across the folds of the frame. The matching ottoman completes the set, built for the kind of unhurried afternoon this chair was always meant for.
