Auguste Chair

Overview

With Auguste, Jean-Marie Massaud reinterprets the classic dining chair in a contemporary key. Poliform says the project combines visual lightness and a sophisticated character, with metal finishes and straw rope details.

Construction

The structure is avorio mat painted metal or satin-finish brown nickel. Backrest and seat are single-density moulded flexible polyurethane or woven synthetic straw, over a cotton canvas and polyester fibre pre-cover, with a non-removable cover in fabric, leather or synthetic straw.

Specifications

• Chair without armrests: 540, 540 and 785 mm (axes not labelled on the drawing)
• Chair with armrests: 575 mm in the front view
• Designer: Jean-Marie Massaud

Jean-Marie Massaud

Poliform's page credits Jean-Marie Massaud as the designer of Auguste, and the Poliform news catalogue presents it with a technical data sheet credited to him.

From the director's chair

The catalogue says Auguste reinterprets the iconic director's chair with a radical yet sophisticated attitude. It is designed for the contemporary dining area and deliberately moves away from a traditional idea of elegance, also in its finishes of metal and straw rope.