Vitra chair .03 chocolate / stackable, Maarten Van Severen, 1998

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Vitra chair .03 chocolate / stackable

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The chair .03 by Vitra (Maarten van Severen, 1998) in chocolate, base powder-coated and stackable: The aesthetic trademark of .03 is its clear simple lines – the quintessence of the concept "less is more". Only when the user sits down does he experience its great comfort. The soft seat and backrest shell made of integral foam support the body when sitting, together with the leaf springs integrated into the backrest. .03 is a "general chair" that can be used in almost all kinds of spaces. The shell, with its linear silhouette and flexible integral foam construction, adapts to the body: when the sitter leans back, the upper part of the backrest yields slightly. Built-in leaf springs give added resilience to the backrest and return it to the original position when pressure is removed. This makes .03 so unexpectedly comfortable. .03 offers many advantages, especially for use in public spaces: it can be compactly stacked (up to 20 chairs), has optional linking connectors with or without seat numbers and is robust and easy to clean.

Material: integral polyurethane foam shell, back with integrated leaf springs, back legs in tubular steel, front legs in aluminium profile.

Without armrests, non-stackable: 790 × 380 × 525 mm
Without armrests, stackable: 790 × 435 × 525 mm

Product.Nr.: 44014200014004

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Polyurethane

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Designer furniture by Maarten van Severen at lachair.com

Maarten Van Severen, born 1956 in Antwerp, Belgium, studied architecture at the Sint-Lucas Art Academy in Ghent, Belgium. He designed his first furniture pieces in 1986 and in the following year established an independent workshop, where he pursued the limited, semi-industrial production of his own furniture designs. This unified process of design and production was a fundamental aspect of his work over a long period of time, in which he devoted himself to the examination of basic furniture types: chair, table, chaiselongue, shelving, cabinet. He developed primary solutions for these categories based on a comprehensive exploration of the questions of form, material and construction. Beginning in 1990, Maarten Van Severen began to collaborate closely with Rem Koolhaas and also turned his attention to interior design tasks. During this period he also assumed teaching positions at a variety of institutions, including University College West Flanders in Kortrijk (1996), the Academy of Fine Arts in Maastricht (1996-97), Delft University of Technology (1998) and universities in Helsinki and Barcelona. The beginning of his collaboration with Vitra in 1996 marked a new phase in his career. It offered him the opportunity to work with new materials and also brought a much wider degree of exposure and influence. Until his death in 2005 in Ghent, Maarten Van Severen developed a range of new designs for Vitra, which have progressively entered series production.

Exhibitions:

2001 Salon du Meuble, Paris
2000 Intérieur 00, Kortrijk
1999 "Maarten Van Severen – Collection", New York
1998 Intérieur 98, Kortrijk
1998 Internationale Möbelmesse (IMM), Cologne
1996 Triennale di Milano, Milan
1994 Stool Nr. 2, Tafel: new acquisitions in the Vitra Design Museum Collection, Weil am Rhein
1994 Intérieur 94, Kortrijk
1990 "New Furniture", Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Ghent
1988 "Salon Refuse", Surplus Gallery, Ghent