Belleville Chair Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, 2015
Belleville Chair
Belleville Chair Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, 2015
The plastic Belleville Chair consists of two components – a structural frame and a seat shell. The elegant structural frame forms the calligraphic lines of the chair's legs and backrest – and is available without or without forward sloping armrests. The thin seat shell
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tapers upward from the seat into the back. In addition to the version made of coloured plastic, the shell also comes in plywood veneer or upholstered in leather or fabric. Belleville Chair Plastic is also suitable for outdoor use.
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02 About / Comtents
04 Public Spaces 06 Design for Stackablility 08 Home Spaces 10 Design for Lightness 12 Designers & VITRA
Belleville Chair
Belleville Chair Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, 2015
The plastic Belleville Chair consists of two components – a structural frame and a seat shell. The elegant structural frame forms the calligraphic lines of the chair's legs and backrest – and is available without or without forward sloping armrests. The thin seat shell
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tapers upward from the seat into the back. In addition to the version made of coloured plastic, the shell also comes in plywood veneer or upholstered in leather or fabric. Belleville Chair Plastic is also suitable for outdoor use.
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Belleville Chair
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02 About / Comtents
04 Public Spaces 06 Design for Stackablility 08 Home Spaces 10 Design for Lightness 12 Designers & VITRA
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Public Spaces Unlimited combinations
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While public spaces are constantly being noticed, the attention paid to them tends to be fleeting and distracted in nature. Well-designed public areas give visitors the opportunity to experience how design and architecture
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influence their well-being. This is why every organisation that provides public spaces should guarantee an environment that the public will take seriously.
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While public spaces are constantly being noticed, the attention paid to them tends to be fleeting and distracted in nature. Well-designed public areas give visitors the opportunity to experience how design and architecture
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influence their well-being. This is why every organisation that provides public spaces should guarantee an environment that the public will take seriously.
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Stackability Belleville is the name of the vibrant Paris neighbourhood where the designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have their studio. Visual references for the Belleville Chair can be found in the classic French bistro furnishings and lively atmosphere of this Parisian quarter. The chair's familiar shape - even in a contemporary context - might at first be taken for granted, yet it also evokes a sense of mystery and bemusement, since the materiality, construction and fabrication of the chair only become apparent at second glance.
to individuals in situations of food poverty and social vulnerability. The project was conceived by Food for Soul, a non-profit organisation founded by chef Massimo Bottura, established to empower communities to fight food waste through social inclusion. The Refettorio utilises the knowledge of top chefs to create healthy meals for those living in socially vulnerable conditions using supermarket surplus sourced by the Felix Project.
Refettorio Felix is a new community kitchen, dining hall and drop-in centre in the former St Cuthbert’s Centre in West London, which provides lunch and other services
BellevilleChair Seat, base and frame: injection-moulded polyamide. Can be stacked up to 5 high.
Belleville Seat shell, base and frame: injection-moulded polyamide. tackable up to 6 high.
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Stackability Belleville is the name of the vibrant Paris neighbourhood where the designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have their studio. Visual references for the Belleville Chair can be found in the classic French bistro furnishings and lively atmosphere of this Parisian quarter. The chair's familiar shape - even in a contemporary context - might at first be taken for granted, yet it also evokes a sense of mystery and bemusement, since the materiality, construction and fabrication of the chair only become apparent at second glance.
to individuals in situations of food poverty and social vulnerability. The project was conceived by Food for Soul, a non-profit organisation founded by chef Massimo Bottura, established to empower communities to fight food waste through social inclusion. The Refettorio utilises the knowledge of top chefs to create healthy meals for those living in socially vulnerable conditions using supermarket surplus sourced by the Felix Project.
Refettorio Felix is a new community kitchen, dining hall and drop-in centre in the former St Cuthbert’s Centre in West London, which provides lunch and other services
BellevilleChair Seat, base and frame: injection-moulded polyamide. Can be stacked up to 5 high.
Belleville Seat shell, base and frame: injection-moulded polyamide. tackable up to 6 high.
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Home Spaces Outdoor Inspiration
Regardless of where you live – New York, Tokyo, Paris, Amsterdam or anywhere else – the Vitra Home Collection brings together striking, elegant and versatile designs created to express your individual style, meet the needs of modern life, and transform your living space into a vibrant home. This holds equally true for spacious residences as well as for apartments of limited proportions, where every object has to work overtime to accommodate an array of different functions. There’s no right size for a home, and no correct style. It can be for one or for
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many; it can be a place to hide from the world or a space to welcome it in; it can be plugged into the network or completely off grid; it can be full of things or almost empty; richly decorated or strictly minimal. The Vitra Home Collection encompasses the visions and creations of an international team of authors and brings together designers working today with those of previous decades. Whatever your scale or your style, there is a piece in the Collection that will be perfectly at home in your home.
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Home Spaces Outdoor Inspiration
Regardless of where you live – New York, Tokyo, Paris, Amsterdam or anywhere else – the Vitra Home Collection brings together striking, elegant and versatile designs created to express your individual style, meet the needs of modern life, and transform your living space into a vibrant home. This holds equally true for spacious residences as well as for apartments of limited proportions, where every object has to work overtime to accommodate an array of different functions. There’s no right size for a home, and no correct style. It can be for one or for
Belleville Chair | Plastic Belleville Table | Plastic (Bistro)
many; it can be a place to hide from the world or a space to welcome it in; it can be plugged into the network or completely off grid; it can be full of things or almost empty; richly decorated or strictly minimal. The Vitra Home Collection encompasses the visions and creations of an international team of authors and brings together designers working today with those of previous decades. Whatever your scale or your style, there is a piece in the Collection that will be perfectly at home in your home.
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Lightness The plastic Belleville Chair consists of two components – a structural frame and a seat shell. The elegant structural frame forms the calligraphic lines of the chair's legs and backrest – and is available without or without forward sloping armrests. The thin seat shell tapers upward from the seat into the back. In addition to the version made of coloured plastic, the shell also comes in plywood veneer or upholstered in leather or fabric. Belleville Chair Plastic is also suitable for outdoor use. This type of construction opens up new perspectives for the materiality of the plastic chair, since the surface of
the seat shell is the defining characteristic of the Belleville Chair's identity: available in coloured polypropylene, moulded plywood veneer or with a cover in leather or fabric, the perception of the Belleville Chair is transformed from a plastic chair to a wooden chair to an upholstered chair - and even to an armchair with forward slanting armrests.
Dimesions of Belleville Chair Seat, base and frame: injection-moulded polyamide. Can be stacked up to 5 high.
Dimesions of Belleville Armchair Seat shell, base and frame: injection-moulded polyamide. tackable up to 6 high.
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Lightness The plastic Belleville Chair consists of two components – a structural frame and a seat shell. The elegant structural frame forms the calligraphic lines of the chair's legs and backrest – and is available without or without forward sloping armrests. The thin seat shell tapers upward from the seat into the back. In addition to the version made of coloured plastic, the shell also comes in plywood veneer or upholstered in leather or fabric. Belleville Chair Plastic is also suitable for outdoor use. This type of construction opens up new perspectives for the materiality of the plastic chair, since the surface of
the seat shell is the defining characteristic of the Belleville Chair's identity: available in coloured polypropylene, moulded plywood veneer or with a cover in leather or fabric, the perception of the Belleville Chair is transformed from a plastic chair to a wooden chair to an upholstered chair - and even to an armchair with forward slanting armrests.
Dimesions of Belleville Chair Seat, base and frame: injection-moulded polyamide. Can be stacked up to 5 high.
Dimesions of Belleville Armchair Seat shell, base and frame: injection-moulded polyamide. tackable up to 6 high.
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Designers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, born 1971 and 1976respectively, in Quimper, France, studied at the École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and at the École des Beaux-Arts in Cergy-Pontoise. Ronan began independent design work immediately after completing his studies, while his brother, who was still in school, assisted him. Their work ranges from small utilitarian objects to architectural projects. In addition to the design of domestic and office furniture, vases, porcelain dishware, jewellery
and diverse home accessories, a primary focus of their work is the design and organisation of interior space. One of their most unconventional designs, Algue (2004), was created in this context. The collaboration between the Bouroullec brothers and Vitra began with the office
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A. Schweiz / Headquarters Vitra AG Klünenfeldstrasse 22 CH-4127 Birsfelden Visits by appointment. T. +41 61 377 00 00 W. http://www.vitra.com.tr/
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Designers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, born 1971 and 1976respectively, in Quimper, France, studied at the École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and at the École des Beaux-Arts in Cergy-Pontoise. Ronan began independent design work immediately after completing his studies, while his brother, who was still in school, assisted him. Their work ranges from small utilitarian objects to architectural projects. In addition to the design of domestic and office furniture, vases, porcelain dishware, jewellery
and diverse home accessories, a primary focus of their work is the design and organisation of interior space. One of their most unconventional designs, Algue (2004), was created in this context. The collaboration between the Bouroullec brothers and Vitra began with the office
Contact
A. Schweiz / Headquarters Vitra AG Klünenfeldstrasse 22 CH-4127 Birsfelden Visits by appointment. T. +41 61 377 00 00 W. http://www.vitra.com.tr/
http://www.vitra.com.tr/