A new type of chair, all in leather, greatly copied today. This is how Mario Bellini describes his Cab chair-armchair, a best-seller designed in the golden era of Italian design and nowadays an iconic item from Cassina's 'I Contemporanei' (the Contemporaries) collection. Cab is the first chair in the world characterised by a self-supporting leather structure inspired by the relationship between the skeleton and the skin. Its upholstery is made of of 16 leather parts, punched one by one and then subjected to 14 manual processes. The individual cut parts are then sewn together only after having gone through a fleshing process aimed at reducing the thickness of the portions to be joined together. The upholstery is then attached to a steel skeleton and closed with zips, like a tailored suit, so much so that it has earned a place in the permanent collection of the Moma in New York, to mention the most famous museum in which it features.