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Platner Side Chair
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Sustainable
Goods crafted with a focus on ecological responsibility and longevity. These products are deemed sustainable after being certified by various environmental bodies from across the world.
Overview
- Collection
- Warren Platner
- Type
- Visitor's chairs
- Designed by
- Warren Platner
- Launched date
- 01st January 1966
- Dimensions
- 73cm W x 55cm D x 75cm H (with seat height of 49cm)
- Construction
- Vertical steel wire rods welded to circular horizontal and edge forming rods. Moulded fibreglass shell and foam cushion; cushion attaches to seat with Velcro.
- Finishes
- Bright nickel finish with clear lacquer protection or painted bronze metallic.
In 1966, the Platner Collection captured the "decorative, gentle, graceful" shapes that were beginning to infiltrate the modern vocabulary. The iconic pieces are created by welding hundreds of curved steel rods to circular frames, simultaneously serving as structure and ornament.