Image source: Cassina — Flutz Armchair
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Flutz Armchair
Flutz: Michael Anastassiades' 2022 chair for Cassina, a rigid aluminium frame around a soft seat.
480 × 780 × 530 mm
2022
Approx. $1,700 (reference price; varies by region and retailer)
Official product information
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Overview
Flutz is a chair by Michael Anastassiades for Cassina, introduced in 2022. It pairs a rigid geometric structure with a soft, inviting seat and comes with or without armrests, in two backrest heights for the armless chair.
Construction
- Frame: painted aluminium side pieces, handles and crosspieces; steel assembly plate painted black.
- Shell: plywood.
- Padding: polyurethane in a slipcover of recycled PET wadding.
- Cover: leather or removable fabric.
Specifications
- 480 x 530 x 780 mm for the armchair 498 01-06 (axes not labelled on the drawing).
Story
Figure skating and an oxymoron
Cassina's sheet gives the inspiration as the precise, elegant movements of figure skating, and the form as an oxymoron of materials and thicknesses. A rigid, geometric structure meets a soft, inviting seat.
Armrests that carry the seat
On the armchair, two thin parallel aluminium sheets joined by crosspieces form the armrests, and an invisible plate resting on them steadies the base and supports the seat, which appears suspended. The sheet calls Flutz the second project by Michael Anastassiades for Cassina.
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