Monobloc chair
The Monobloc is a stackable plastic chair that has been manufactured since the early 1970s . It is named after the injection molding made of polypropylene in one piece (monobloc) and one operation.
The French engineer Henry Massonnet from Nurieux-Volognat is considered to be the inventor of the Monobloc with his “Fauteuil 300”, which today embodies the prototype of the cheap plastic chair. He received support during the development from his long-time friend, the designer Pierre Paulin , who has already designed many chairs and has also made a name for himself as an interior decorator .
The Monobloc was initially an expensive slow seller with a price of 300 French francs (approx. 46 euros). Massonnet optimized the production to such an extent that a production cycle lasted less than two minutes and brought the new Tango, Boston and Sirtaki models onto the market through his company “Stamp”.
With an injection mold , up to 1,500 chairs could be produced in 24 hours, the costs for production were then only about as much as a single chair weighed: 2.50 euros for 2.5 kg of plastic granulate . Features of the Monobloc, which is manufactured as a chair , armchair and stool , are its low weight, stackability and low price. The monobloc is widespread worldwide and is probably the furniture that is produced in the largest number.
The monobloc
Joe Colombo : Universal chair 4867 , 1965, plastic, two-part, height-adjustable and stackable. Predecessor of the one-piece monobloc chair.
Helmut Bätzner : BA1171 chair , also Bofinger chair , designed in 1964, first produced by Bofinger in 1966, plastic, one-piece, stackable.
Exhibitions
- 2017: Monobloc. One chair for the world , Vitra Design Museum , Schaudepot, Weil am Rhein .
Individual evidence
- ↑ You have a design classic in your garden. In: Naomi Gregoris, TagesWoche, Basel, tageswoche.ch. March 14, 2017, accessed November 5, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c Monobloc the most hated chair in the world. In: Florian Siebeck, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH, www.faz.net. May 4, 2017, Retrieved November 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Monobloc Chair: Joe Colombo and Vico Magistretti
- ↑ The omnipresent in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung of April 30, 2017, page 53
