Piana Folding Chair by David Chipperfield
• $191.25 (on sale now)
• Design Within Reach
This is a very hot new design from David Chipperfield that was released last year in Milan by Alessi. Incredibly thin when folded and super bright in color, the chair was developed with Italian manufacturer LAMM out of polypropylene and glass fiber and is a great solution for affordable, stylish additional seating.
David Chipperfield says that "After careful research into historic and contemporary folding chairs, the concept for "Piana" focused on a simple, iconic, general-purpose folding chair, easily recognisable as such. The three parts of the chair rotate around a single axis and the finely engineered supporting structure and mechanism are concealed within the moulded components. It folds completely flat and is horizontally stackable".
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I don't know that $190 (on sale) for a folding chair is really that Affordable for extra seating... I get that it's super flat etc but for $5 I found a set of 4 folding metal chairs on kijiji that I can revamp with spray paint to get the same look.
I guess if you would hire a designer to pick out your furniture for you then you could probably afford it...
Have to agree. I love Alessi and would happily have this chair in my home, but nearly $200 for a small folding chair is not "affordable".
I prefer the 2f folding chair, though of course the piana has the advantage of being something you can actually buy. However, it seems disingenuous to claim horizontal stackability as a desirable feature of this thing; I am pretty sure most folding chairs are horizontally stackable anyway. Smacks of the "gluten-free orange juice" school of advertising.