Archibald Gran Comfort Armchair

Overview

Archibald Gran Comfort is the armchair in which Jean-Marie Massaud gives the Archibald design a sleeker and more informal reading. Its page offers Pelle Frau® Safari leather or Poltrona Frau fabrics, with removable covers on both versions, and gives the SKU as 5506120.

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Construction

• Seat frame: beech, finished in scratchproof black paint
• Backrest: steel with a perimeter weave of elastic belts, and a deformable rubber upper part
• Padding: two shaped polyurethane foam cushions fixed to the frame with Velcro, under a goose down quilt
• Base: four steel feet joined by a perimeter frame with a ruthenium finish

Specifications

• Armchair 5506120: W 104 cm, D 90 cm, H 77 cm (the height is not labelled on the drawing)

A soft bag on a thin metal frame

Poltrona Frau says Massaud pictured a kind of overabundant soft bag, with a rich movement of folds, dropping onto a thin metal architecture of steel frame and feet. The page calls the result a welcoming and sophisticated contrast of volumes and materials. The sheet names the large, soft seat cushion as the central element.

Made to come apart

The page says the armchair was conceived so that it can be taken apart into a metal frame, a goose down quilt and an outer cover, laid one on top of the other and held by removable Velcro straps hidden where the cover meets the frame. It presents this as practical and as sustainable, because the armchair can be disassembled at the end of its life.