The real big theme of design of our time? Without doubt it is sustainability, which companies are now obliged to respect for many reasons. The legislation imposes a correct behavior in the management of productions and materials, the public has become more sensitive to the theme and therefore appreciates a sustainable product and more generally the attention to the environment and to the consequences of our actions on it is now part of our action. It is a cultural and economic path that companies are making in the way that is most congenial to them, transforming it into a creative pretext, and rediscovering the importance of respecting materials and their transformation. A strong example of this evolution is the #SaccoGoesGreen project:  Zanotta has created a numbered edition of its iconic Sacco seat, made with sustainable materials both for the upholstery and for the filling. A gesture of great ethical importance but also entrepreneurial foresight, because to deliver an icon to the future it is obviously necessary to make it compatible with the environment.

After all, Sacco, designed by architects Gatti, Paolini and Teodoro in 1968 represented a revolution in the seating sector, totally changing its structural foundations and forms. And this revolution has opened up to a radical change in the conception of home furnishings, freeing it from the rules and putting creativity and irony in the foreground.

Sacco by Zanotta

If Zanotta bet on free creativity in 1968, today it focuses on environmental sensitivity and does it in a strong and total way with the Sacco goes green. Let's start with the filling: in the original version it consisted of high-strength polystyrene foam balls, a product based on polymers from fossil raw materials, therefore a finite resource. In the "green" version, the padding is based on Synbra's BioFoam® microspheres, a sugar cane-based bioplastic, a plant that unlike fossils can potentially be regenerated over and over again. Comparable to polystyrene for its structure, properties and resistance, it is also biodegradable, compostable and long-lasting.

Sacco Goes Green by Zanotta

Internal casing and coverings are instead made of ECONYL®, a nylon yarn obtained from the recovery of fishing nets gathered on the seabed, scraps of fabric and industrial plastic. From the transformation of these wastes a new yarn is obtained with the same characteristics and performance of the nyoln obtained from petrol. In addition, ECONYL® can be regenerated and almost endlessly.

Sacco Goes Green by Zanotta

Carrying forward sustainability does not mean, however, giving up style: the outer covering of the seat is in fabric designed by Pierre Charpin. Each of the three series of one hundred numbered pieces have a different pattern, inspired by the concept of the net. Each seat is also identified by a jacquard printed fabric cord that bears the serial number and the name of the collection: Sacco goes green. This last detail transforms the seat into a sustainability manifesto.

The Zanotta operation confirms and puts into effect the necessary and now inevitable change of direction in the design (and not only) industry that in the circular economy and in research on materials is finally finding a new way to go, alternative to the traditional production model, now in a definitive crisis. Moreover, Zanotta has managed to bring the emissions of its production factory in Nova Milanese to such a low level that it is similar to that of a domestic user and has also announced that from January 2020 Sacco goes green, which began as a project of limited-edition experimental research, it will enter the Zanotta catalog keeping the same eco-sustainable materials as the limited edition, with a solid-color external upholstery.

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