Trends in chair design: sobriety abandons the table | EL PAÍS Weekly

The commitment is to a superlative character, with formally very bold and extreme patterns, stimulating colors, excessive coatings and provocative textures.

After many years of sobriety, trends in restaurant design, and consequently chairs, are increasingly moving to the other extreme, with truly crazy designs that explore how far you can go formally without losing comfort, especially in the specific case of chairs. Once some limits were overcome, proposals appeared with their entire structure padded and upholstered, as if they were sofas in an individual version. Likewise, the club armchair has been recovered, reintroduced and adapted to this new context for its ability to offer elegance and comfort. For their part, the chairs move between opposite registers. On the one hand they became thick and muscular, as if their lines had been bold. On the other hand, they are so fine and graceful that they almost look like insects.

Jump from club to table. On the left, Leplì armchair, by Kensaku Oshiro for Poltrona Frau, upholstered in electrifying red leather. On the right, a more archetypal proposal: the Clubby armchair, designed by Christophe Pillet for Frag.

Bold Style: Bold design. On the left, Amia model, thick and rounded design by the E-gss studio for Miniforms. On the right, a muscular Choux model, from the Portuguese company Mambo Unlimited Ideas, which mixes different finishes: leather on the seat and fabric on the structure.

Thin and graceful like an insect. On the left, the Curious chair, by Luigi Vittorio Cittadini for Umage, which recalls the figure of a mantis. On the right, the super-light Motta chair, designed by Jasper Morrison for Magis, inspired by Giandomenico Belotti’s 1979 Spaghetti.

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He has been writing about design, interior design and architecture for EL PAÍS Semanal since 2006. Journalist and exhibition curator, particularly interested in new trends, lifestyles and hybridizations between disciplines. Author of books and exhibitions such as ‘Avant-garde of Spanish craftsmanship’ and ‘Scenarios of a near future’.