Via57

VIA57™

With its flexible modules and inventive design, VIA57™ fits into a modern lifestyle, allowing you to reconfigure it to suit your needs.

Create a small sofa for an intimate conversation. Expand it to a stunning lounge area with a welcoming atmosphere. Or let VIA57™ stand out on its own as an inviting piece of sculpture that doubles as a piece of furniture.

VIA57™ will let you design how you choose to live with it.

KIBISI KiBiSi merges the faculties of its founding partners into a symbiotic hybrid of design, architecture and ideation. KiBiSi has extensive production knowhow and design sensibility, big ideas and a holistic perspective as well as idea driven innovation. KiBiSi was founded in Copenhagen by Lars Larsen, Bjarke Ingels and Jens Martin Skibsted. Each partner contributes with intelligence and experience from within his specific field providing KiBiSi with cutting edge knowledge and knowhow within the fields of architecture, design, furniture, electronics, transportation, contemporary culture and lifestyle.

KiBiSi’s work is present in many major museum collections, including the MoMA in New York, Paris’ Centre National d’Arts Plastique and SFMoMA.

DESIGN

ENVIRONMENT & TESTS

Bjarke Ingels in collaboration with KIBISI, 2016.

DESCRIPTION

The chair can be disassembled into different parts (shell and wooden legs) for recycling. The shell of the chair requires specialised recycling due to the embedded steel frame.

This lounge chair by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels designed in collaboration with Danish design group KiBiSi, is as many other furniture pieces in the history of Fritz Hansen designed for a specific location - the VIA 57WEST building in New York City.

The chair will be tested according to: Strength: EN16139 Non domestic seating - level 1, Fire - USA: California TB 117, Fire - UK: BS 5852 crib 5.

The chair is composed of a steel frame embedded in molded soft polyeurothane foam. Two different densities create the soft yet firm comfort.

The thick seat upholstery offers great comfort without losing visual elegance while the rounded backside and the piping refers to Fritz Hansen’s master collection. The wooden base creates an elegant finish towards the floor letting the chair almost float in space.

The collection consists of an element that can be used in a multitude of ways. It can positioned individually so that you have easy access to the chair from several sides or it can be placed in sofa-like formations. This offers great flexibility hence the VIA57™ lounge chair can fit into various interiors auah as lobbies, receptions, lounges and private homes.

WARRANTY Years of warranty: 5 years covers: Fabric. Base: oak.

10 years covers: Shell.

The standard warranty is against manufacturing defects (i.e. materials and design). The warranty does not cover leather and fabrics ordered as customers own or special material as well as products manufactured according to customer specifications. Normal wear and tear including damage of covers are not covered by the warranty.

VARIATIONS & DIMENSIONS

EXTENDED LIMITED WARRANTY

MODEL BI01

If you register your VIA57™ chair within three (3) months from the date of purchase online at fritzhansen.com/my-republic, the warranty will be extended by up to 20 years.

Depth: 91 cm / 35,8” Width: 98 cm / 38,5” Height: 78 cm / 30,7” Seat height: 41,7 cm / 16,4”

UPHOLSTERY VIA57™ is presented in a Fritz Hansen Selection of fabrics that accentuate the design of the chair. The chair is available in the fabrics Hallingdal 65 and Steelcut Trio.

Steelcut Trio 2, colour 124 is the fabric chosen for the VIA 57WEST building in New York.

The 6 Fritz Hansen Selections are:

CHARCOAL Fabric: Hallingdal 65 - 180 Legs: Oak

YELLOW/WHITE Fabric: Hallingdal 65 - 407 Legs: Oak

WHITE/BLACK Fabric: Steelcut Trio 2 - 124 Legs: Oak

RED Fabric: Steelcut Trio 2 - 553 Legs: Oak

DARK BROWN

78 cm 30.7”

58,5 cm 23”

91 cm

VIA57™ - BI01

41,7 cm 16,4”

78 cm

98 cm

91 cm 35.8”

41,7 cm

Fabric: Steelcut Trio 2 - 383 Legs: Oak

98 cm 38.5”

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