Richard Sapper

Richard Sapper was born in Munich in 1932, graduated in business there and began at Daimler-Benz before opening his Milan studio in 1959. With Marco Zanuso he designed radios and televisions for Brionvega, then the Tizio lamp for Artemide, the 9091 kettle for Alessi and, as consultant to IBM, the first ThinkPad in 1992. He received the career Compasso d’Oro in 2014 and died in 2015.

For B&B Italia he designed the folding Nena armchair in 1984, reissued in 2026, light and strong on articulated joints in die-cast aluminium.