Pacha Lounge Chair

Overview

The Pacha Lounge Chair is a fully upholstered, low-slung chair; this page shows the version without armrests. GUBI lists it under Seating, Lounge Chairs, as a design by Pierre Paulin from 1975. It sits on a base finished in Pearl Gold or Black Semi Matt and comes with a fixed base or a returning swivel base.

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Construction

The product page lists a wood frame, standard foam that complies with CA TB 117-2013, and four upholstery fabrics. The representative variant, item 10062198, is fixed-base, with a Pearl Gold base and Karakorum by Dedar (001) as the standard fabric.

Specifications

Overall size for item 10062198 is 77 cm wide, 85 cm deep and 65 cm high (30.3 x 33.5 x 25.6 in), and the page gives its weight as 57.3 lb.

Drift among the clouds

GUBI describes Paulin's earliest sketches as imagining sitting as a sensation, expressed through rounded forms that seem to float and hold the body with ease. From that idea came a way of sitting that is low, generous and free from convention. The Pacha form drifts between inside and out and touches the ground only lightly.

Low-level living

According to GUBI, Paulin drew the chair in step with the changing design style of the 1970s, replacing the austerity of post-war design with a vigorous new approach. He raised the chair lightly on its base and traced the foam and upholstery with stitching lines inclined inwards. GUBI adds that pieces like this one pioneered low-level living, sitting on the floor level by getting rid of chair legs.

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