
Clarissa Armchair
The Moroso Clarissa Armchair by Patricia Urquiola sets a padded front quilt inside a sculpted upholstered shell.
Its swivel base is offered in painted steel or with an oak covering. Polyurethane foam surrounds an internal steel frame; the shell upholstery is fixed, while the front quilt can be removed through its zipper attachment.
Every detail, considered.
- Brand
- Moroso
- Collection
- Clarissa
- Designer
- Patricia Urquiola
- Design year
- 2014
- Descriptor
- Swivel fabric armchair with zip-off front quilt
- Country
- Italy
- Structure
- Cold injected polyurethane with internal steel frame
- Materials
- 01Removable front quilt
A zipper releases the padded front layer while the shell upholstery stays fixed.
- 02Two swivel-base treatments
Both painted steel and oak-covered base versions turn beneath the upholstered shell.
Clarissa Armchair by Moroso combines a sculpted fabric shell with a removable padded front quilt.
Cold-injected polyurethane surrounds the internal steel frame. Both base versions swivel, with an exposed steel treatment or an oak covering. The included front quilt attaches by zipper and can be removed independently, while upholstery on the main shell remains fixed to the chair.
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Italian designer sofas and seating where upholstery expertise meets expressive color, sculptural form and international creative voices.
Patricia Urquiola
Patricia Urquiola is a Spanish architect and designer who works in Milan. Born in Oviedo in 1961, she studied architecture in Madrid and completed her degree at the Politecnico di Milano in 1989 under Achille Castiglioni. She worked with Vico Magistretti and then led the design group at Lissoni Associati before opening her own studio in 2001. The studio works across furniture and lighting, architecture, interiors for hotels, shops and homes, exhibitions and art direction, and since 2015 she has been the art director of Cassina. Her work has received the Compasso d'Oro, the Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts from the Spanish government and the Order of Isabella the Catholic. On this site her pieces appear across Moroso, Cappellini, Driade, Flos and Mater, among them the Antibodi chaise for Moroso, with its field of raised petal forms.
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- Footprint checked against your floor planPlus doorways, stairs and clearances
- Leather, fabric and colour chosen with youand more, in the showroom
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