Audrey

Overview

Audrey is a chair by Piero Lissoni for Kartell, code 5875, the version without arms; the sheet draws the armchair, code 5876, next to it. Kartell dates it 2012 on the data sheet, whose header also prints Good Design Award 2012 together with a Red Dot Design Award logo marked winner 2013. The page names Burgundy as the colour of the chair shown.

Construction

The sheet lists a painted aluminium frame and a seat and back of batch-dyed modified polypropylene or painted. Kartell's leaflet is more specific: the structure is die-cast polished or painted aluminium and the seat and back are batch-dyed polypropylene.

Specifications

The drawing gives 52 cm wide, 51 cm deep and 80 cm high and 5.0 kg. Heights are not labelled on the drawing. The sheet lists eleven colour combinations of frame and seat.

A Lissoni chair from 2012

Kartell dates Audrey to 2012 and credits the design to Piero Lissoni. The sheet header prints Good Design Award 2012 together with a Red Dot Design Award logo marked winner 2013.

Frame and shell

Kartell's leaflet describes a die-cast aluminium structure, polished or painted, with seat and back in polypropylene coloured throughout. The leaflet also lists an ageing test to UNI EN 15187 and notes that the model carries a registration as a Community design.