Vivace Conference Chair
Furniture Design
Winner, IDSA 1999 Industrial Design Excellence Award & LA winners 1999, The Architectural Foundation of Los Angeles
In collaboration with Arsenio Garcia MonsalveVivace is a stackable conference chair that can just as easily be used in conference settings as in fashionable coffee shops. Initially designed for the Zenobio Institute in Venice, Italy, where the relationship between the water and the city’s architecture served as a source of inspiration for the design of the chair. The intention was to create a comfortable, applicable and harmonious solution where the writing surface will become an integral part of its design.
“The chair design embodies many of the themes that drove the furniture designed by Charles and Ray Eames. It is elegant, light, ergonomic with a minimal structure and it is easy to manufacture. It is an exciting new interpretation of a classic problem. The combination of a seat, back and arm that flowed into legs gave the chair a strong sculptural presence. The simple, direct use of material makes this chair easy to manufacture and assemble. And finally the chair is designed to stack. The sophisticated level of integration of so many factors into a realistic solution made this a clear gold award winner.”
Craig Vogel, IDSA 1999 Industrial Design Excellence Awards.
