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Viola Small Armchair
AB Concept's Viola: a solid ash frame, a wooden backrest that forms the arms and leather laces.
590 × 820 × 620 mm
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Description
Overview
AB Concept designed the Viola small armchair for Poltrona Frau, drawing on the chair made for the Four Seasons restaurant in Hong Kong. Its wooden backrest also forms the armrest, and sixty saddle-leather laces are woven between the backrest and the frame.
Construction
- Structure: solid ash
- Weave: hand-made braiding in leather cord on the back and sides
- Seat springing: elastic belts
- Cushions: seat and back cushion made in a single body, fixed to the frame with two snap buttons; down back cushion with a polyurethane foam insert, seat cushion of polyurethane foam and polyester wadding
- Covers: leather or fabric, both removable
Specifications
- Overall size: 59 x 62 x 82 cm (5657101)
Story
From a Hong Kong dining room
Viola takes its starting point from an ultra-comfortable chair created for the three-Michelin-star Four Seasons restaurant in Hong Kong. AB Concept revisited that classic design and gave it a decidedly contemporary touch.
Solid and void
The result has great formal lightness, with a play of solid and void that suits the chair alone or drawn up to a table. Soft curves shape the wooden backrest, which also makes the armrest, and a weave of sixty saddle-leather laces connects it to the frame.
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