Foster 500 Sofa

Overview

Walter Knoll's page lists the Foster 500 Sofa with "Design: Norman Foster." It describes a contemporary and classic range, generously sized, with loose seat and back cushions, whose hallmark is a rigid chrome frame carrying geometric leather surfaces that are suspended precisely above it. The series is completed by occasional tables and an armchair. The page says the collaboration between Foster and Walter Knoll began with the redesign of the Berlin Reichstag, and that the resulting Foster 500 armchairs and sofas are recognised as modern classics.

Construction

The Foster 500 product sheet, which the sofa page links and which is printed for the armchair 500-10, lists a wooden frame with sinuous springs, a steel frame, loose seat and back cushions attached with hook-and-loop fastener, a back with cold foam sandwich core and polyester fibre wrap, a seat of cold foam with polyester fibre wrap, a brushed chrome base frame and synthetic glides.

Specifications

Sizes from the type parameters of Walter Knoll's Revit families; the sofas share D 80 × H 73 cm, seat height 43 cm and seat depth 54 cm:

• 500-20 two-seater: W 150 cm
• 500-25 two-and-a-half-seater: W 175 cm
• 500-30 three-seater: W 215 cm

From the Reichstag

Walter Knoll says the collaboration between the architect Lord Norman Foster and the company began with the redesign of the Berlin Reichstag, and that the Foster 500 armchairs and sofas that resulted are recognised today as modern classics. The press release adds that the rigid chrome framework and the geometric leather surfaces floating precisely above it are their unmistakable hallmarks.

Lounges, conference rooms, hotel rooms

The page says that in lounges, conference rooms or hotel rooms people love to sit in the Foster 500 armchairs and sofas. The Foster 500 programme also includes an armchair and occasional tables.