Image source: Cassina — Eve Chair
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Eve Chair
Piero Lissoni's Eve of 2009: an aluminium-frame armchair with a saddle leather seat and back.
560 × 760 × 420 mm
2009
Approx. $2,800 (reference price; varies by region and retailer)
Official product information
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Description
Overview
Eve is an armchair designed by Piero Lissoni in 2009. Cassina describes a minimalist design chair with an aluminium frame and a seat and backrest strictly of saddle leather.
Construction
A thermoformed plastic seat shell carries the saddle-hide upholstery on an aluminium structure. On the sheet the leather is an envelope slipped over the frame, with no stitching in sight.
Specifications
- Aluminium version: 56 cm wide, 42 cm deep, 76 cm high (values not labelled on the drawing)
- Frame: polished aluminium
Story
Simple geometry
Cassina's page presents Eve as a minimalist and essential design chair with a modern touch, designed by Piero Lissoni for Cassina in 2009; the page title calls it an Italian design armchair.
A leather envelope
The sheet describes the leather as an envelope without visible stitching, made with cuts and folds, over a thermoformed plastic shell with a thin polyurethane layer.
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