Gufram
La Cova Armchair
Price € 34,800.00
La Cova by Gufram, created by Gianni Ruffi in 1972, is a seat-sculpture that blends irony, provocation, and the poetry of everyday life. Conceived as a welcoming nest, it evokes a large sliced apple, soft and enveloping, crafted from polyurethane foam finished with Gufram’s signature Guflac coating, which enhances its vivid color and velvety texture. Its organic shape invites you to sink into an informal embrace, transforming a familiar object into a pop icon of Italian radical design. With its mix of playfulness, comfort, and material experimentation, La Cova continues to surprise and redefine new ways of living.
W.200 x D.200 x H.75 cm
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Irreverent and iconoclastic, Gufram is undoubtedly the most anti-conformist brand of the Italian design scene. Its furnishings are famous for their light-hearted taste, always rich with their ironic touches and strongly influenced by the artistic avant-garde. They constitute real sculptures of the Pop Art style. The bright and vibrant colors, the fanciful shapes and the continuous ability to reinvent their own icons, make sure that Gufram furniture will always be noticed. Several Gufram pieces are in the collections of the most important design museums in the world, such as the MoMA in New York or the Center Pompidou in Paris.Read more
Designed by
Gianni Ruffi
Gianni Ruffi (1938–) is an Italian artist associated with Pop Art and with what would later be termed the “Pistoia School” by critic Cesare Vivaldi. A self-taught painter and sculptor, he emerged on the Italian art scene in the 1960s with a distinctive poetic language deeply rooted in the rural culture of Tuscany. Drawing on emblematic objects from this world, Ruffi enlarged them to monumental scale, transforming them into full-fledged installations. This same source of inspiration underpins his most celebrated works as a designer, all created for the Tuscan brand Poltronova in the early 1970s. Among these, the most iconic is undoubtedly La Cova seating piece—originally designed in 1969 and now reissued by Gufram—a surreal, oversized bird’s nest in which one can lie down and be gently cradled, complete with two giant eggs. Ruffi’s art, always imbued with a strong sense of irony and over time enriched by references to the principles of Arte Povera, has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, both in his native Tuscany and in more international contexts.Read more