Pininfarina is the Italian design house founded in Turin in 1930 by Battista Pinin Farina, who became the most celebrated car designer of his era; one of its early cars entered the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 1986 the third generation of the family extended the firm beyond automotive design into industrial design, architecture, interiors and transportation.
For Riva 1920 Pininfarina designed the Giulia Stool, a dynamic rocking form sculpted from a single block of scented cedar and finished with a natural leather-covered handle. Its taut, flowing lines carry the design house's automotive sensibility into a single piece of solid wood.
