The Sacco chair was designed by Piero Gatti, Cesare Paolini and Franco Teodoro [it] in 1968, and became "one of the icons of the Italian anti-design movement.

Its complete flexibility and formlessness made it the perfect antidote to the static formalism of mainstream Italian furniture of the period” according to design historian Penny Spark.

Franco Teodoro and Piero Gatti, the designers, studied at the Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale per le Arti Grafiche e Fotografiche of Turin.

Sacco was part of the 1972 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York Italy: The New Domestic Landscape – Achievements and Problems of Italian Design.

At the Museum of Modern Art, New York, it was included in the ‘‘Recent Acquisitions: Design Collection’’ exhibition from 1 December 1970 to 31 January 1971, and later in ‘‘Italy: The New Domestic Landscape,’’ held from 26 May to 11 September 1972.

It also appeared at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in ‘‘The Italian Metamorphosis, 1943–1968,’’ from 7 October 1994 to 22 January 1995, which subsequently traveled to the Triennale di Milano (February–May 1995) and Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (May–September 1995).

More recently, it was featured at the Kanal–Centre Pompidou in Brussels as part of the ‘’Phantom Offices’’ exhibition, held from 23 January to 30 June 2019.