Gubi reissues Tito Agnoli's 1960s rattan chairs with Bonacina

May 25. Gubi announced a collaboration with Italian rattan house Bonacina 1889, bringing back two chairs from Tito Agnoli's 1960s catalog: the T12 and T3. Both pieces use the original weave pattern and frame geometry from the archive.

Agnoli designed the chairs in the late '60s for Bonacina's main line, then they disappeared from production sometime in the '80s. Gubi's reissue pulls from Bonacina's original tooling, which survived. The T12 is the lounge chair, low-slung with a wide seat. The T3 is the dining height version, same weave vocabulary, narrower frame.

The rattan is Indonesian, hand-woven in Bonacina's Lurago d'Erba workshop north of Milan. The frames are steam-bent beech, a process Bonacina has run the same way since 1889. No finish changes, no contemporary reinterpretation. The chairs look exactly like the archive photos because they are built exactly like the archive photos.

Pricing lands at €2,490 for the T12, €1,890 for the T3. That puts them in the Cassina-adjacent tier, not the mass-market rattan bracket. The chairs ship in June through Gubi's European dealers and online.

This is the second Agnoli reissue Gubi has run with an Italian heritage house in three years. The first was a series of marble side tables with Salvatori in 2023. The pattern holds: find a midcentury designer with a clean archive, partner with the original manufacturer if they are still operating, reissue with zero updates. It works because the originals were already resolved.

The T12 and T3 read summer-house correct in a way that feels 1967 and 2026 at the same time. No one will ask when you bought them.