Belle

Overview

Belle (2018, Naoto Fukasawa) is a wooden chair with rounded lines and a leather-upholstered seat. The page gives it elbow-shaped armrests, a Gamma leather cover on the seat and a backrest offered in two versions, wood or leather.

Construction

• Frame: solid wood
• Back: hard polyurethane or solid wood
• Seat: veneered multi-layered wood panel with flexible cold-shaped polyurethane foam upholstery
• Ferrules: plastic material
• Cover: Gamma leather

Specifications

• SB60 and SB60L: Largest drawing values, not labelled with axes: 74.5, 60 and 54 cm

Named after a fairy tale

In Naoto Fukasawa's words, the character of the chair lies in its back support and armrests, brought out by the obtuse angle around the elbow. He names it Belle after the story of Beauty and the Beast.

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Counterpart to the Bull table

B&B Italia calls Belle the delicate, feminine counterpart to the Bull table, a pairing built on literary and stylistic references, though the chair can also be combined with other models.