Vitra Basel Chair

 

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With the Basel Chair Jasper Morrison renews the category of the plain classic wooden chair, like it has been industrially produced for the last 100 years. The harmonic balanced proportions catch the viewers eye, confesses the chair hile exact examination a critical innovation. Seat and back rest of the Basel Chair are made of plastic and with that they can better organical formed to plain wood chairs, structure in the surface and alltogether thinner – and with that more flexible. The Basel Chair offers thanks to this material combination a corrected seating comfort and in its two versions also a special optical attraction.

Base beech natural or beech dark beeched, seat- and back rest are made of coloured ASA-plastic.

Design: Jasper Morrison

Jasper Morrison was born in London in 1959, and graduated in Design at Kingston Polytechnic Design School, London (1979-82 BA(Des.) ) and The Royal College of Art for Post Graduate studies (1982-85 MA(Des.) RCA). In 1984 he studied at Berlin’s HdK on a Sc Designer Jasper Morrison