Uncle Jack

Overview

The Uncle Jack sofa is by Philippe Starck for Kartell and appears under product id 06400B4 in the colour Crystal. Kartell's page calls it a transparent polycarbonate sofa made in a single mould, and the data sheet codes it 6400.

Construction

• Material: transparent polycarbonate
• Colour: one, Crystal (B4)
• Page statement: transparent polycarbonate, single mould

Specifications

• Dimensions (sheet code 6400): 190 x 75 x 96 cm
• Weight: 26.7 kg
• Test results: EN 1022:2005 and EN 16139:2013 compliant; EN 1728:2012 level L2

One mould, one block

Kartell's page describes Uncle Jack as the revolutionary single mould transparent polycarbonate sofa, and as the most daring example of injection moulding technology, 190 cm long in a single block.

Fifteen years of transparency

Kartell's museum page ties the sofa to the company's fifteen years of transparent products, a line it traces back to La Marie in 1999 and on to Louis Ghost and the Bourgie lamp. It calls Uncle Jack a record-breaking product, the largest piece of transparent polycarbonate ever injected in a single mould, and adds a Red Dot Award Best of the Best 2016.