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Motta Chair
Steel tube chair with a natural oak plywood seat and back, designed by Jasper Morrison
420 × 760 × 450 mm
2025
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Overview
Motta is a 2025 chair by Jasper Morrison for Magis. This version has a glossy painted steel tube frame with a seat and back in natural oak plywood. Magis describes it as designed for domestic use and also suitable for contract use.
Construction
The frame is steel tube with a glossy painted finish, offered in four frame colours. Seat and back are natural oak plywood, finished in oak natural 7315.
Specifications
- Size: 42 x 45 x 76 cm (SD1674)
- Frame: steel tube, glossy painted, blue 5290, brown 5291, red 5292 or green 5293
- Seat and back: natural oak plywood
- Designer: Jasper Morrison, 2025
Story
A lightweight chair with vertical legs
Magis says the chair began as a conversation with Jasper Morrison, a meeting of old friends after a break of several years. Morrison cited Giandomenico Belotti's Spaghetti Chair as a reference point for a lightweight chair with vertical legs and reduced bulk, and the Magis team set to work from that idea.
A name from the first Magis headquarters
The name comes from Motta di Livenza, the original headquarters of Magis, and honours the place of that meeting. Magis describes the clean lines and vertical structure of the chair as suited to different contexts.
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Collection
Motta
Motta by Jasper Morrison for Magis: steel tube chairs and stools with oak plywood, polypropylene or fabric seats, plus low tables with veneered oak tops.