2010 Designer Furniture World Cup:Italy 1 – Switzerland 1

Knowing that they needed to defeat Fritz Haller’s stable and flexible USM Haller system in order to advance the Italians choose to stick with Antonio Citterio for this all or nothing encounter.

Setting quickly to work Antonio Citterio rolled out a succession of office chairs; including the Oson CE, Axess and T-chair for Vitra. However regardless of what Antonio Citterio tried, Fritz Haller always found a combination to match and ultimately took a 1:0 lead with a beautifully finished Haller Table.

Undeterred Citterio kept producing the office chairs and was eventually rewarded when his Vitra Skape sneaked in to make the final score 1:1

It was, however, very much a case of “too little too late” and so Switzerland and Fritz Haller advanced to the semi-finals.

The Group A table and all Group A results can be found here.

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