Re-Chair

Overview

Re-Chair is a stacking chair by Antonio Citterio for Kartell, code 5803. It is dated 2022 on its data sheet, which also shows the Red Dot Award product design 2022 logo. Kartell's page describes a chair made from recycled materials and produced according to sustainable principles, with bold, square lines that give lightness and solidity at once.

Construction

The sheet lists recycled thermoplastic technopolymer with mineral filler for the colours White, Gray, Green and Dove gray, and a separate post-industrial recycled technopolymer obtained from Illy coffee pods for the black version. The page says Re-Chair is suitable for indoor and outdoor use and is stackable.

Specifications

The drawing gives 50.5 cm wide, 49 cm deep and 79 cm high and 3.5 kg. Heights are not labelled on the drawing.

A chair from recycled material

The sheet calls Re-Chair Antonio Citterio's latest creation for Kartell made from recycled material. The chair's name brings to mind the experiment on recycled material at the centre of the project, according to the sheet.

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Illy coffee pods

For the black version Kartell worked with the Illy Group. Post-industrial waste coffee pods are ground into a granule-like material that is injected into a Kartell mould. The sheet says it took almost two years to reach the quality standard and to develop the mechanics needed to produce a chair from waste pods, and it calls Re-Chair the special ambassador of the project powered by Illy caffè.