Kartell w Philippe Starck Mr Impossible Chair

Kartell w Philippe Starck Mr Impossible Chair

A most inviting chair with an organic design that inspires comfort, neatness and style.

Mr. Impossible is the combination of sophisticated design and advanced plastic processing design. It takes on a new technological challenge with highly sophisticated processing techniques that consist in the welding of two shells: the transparent structure and the seat, in a full-coloured and translucent version, are joined together making them indestructible and guaranteeing a truly surprising design effect.

The seal of the two oval shells gives the plastic a new bi-colour and three-dimensional effect because it welds a transparent and a coloured surface together without interruption, revolutionising the perception of the material which becomes rich and hyper-technological.

Material

Seat: transparent or batch-dyed polycarbonate
Structure: transparent polycarbonate

ColoursSeat - Transparent
B4/crystal
42/ochre
43/purple
44/red orange

Seat - Mat
47/white
48/black

The Designer: Philippe Starck (born January 18, 1949) is a French designer known since the start of his career in the 1980s for his interior, product, industrial and architectural design including furniture. Through his "democratic design" concept, Starck has campaigned for well-designed objects that are not just aimed for upper-tiered incomes. He has expressed this as a utopian ideal, approached in practice by increasing production quantities to cut costs and by using mail-order, via Les 3 Suisses. In January 2013 he redesigned the Navigo travel pass.

One of the ways Philippe Starck has economised costs for the public, is his plastic-furniture line, producing pieces such as the Kartell Louis Ghost chair, over a million of which have been sold. He has also been involved in the development of Fluocaril toothbrushes to bathroom fittings for Duravit, Hansgrohe, Hoesch and Axor, from Alessi's Juicy Salif lemon squeezer to Zikmu speakers, Zik headphones by Parrot, Laguiole knives, Starckeyes glasses by Mikli and the Marie Coquine lamp for Baccarat.

The Brand: A leading design company, founded in 1949 by Giulio Castelli and now run by Claudio Luti, Kartell is one of the symbols of Italian design around the world. A success story told through an incredible series of products – furniture, furnishings, lighting, home accessories – that have become part of the domestic landscape, not to mention actual contemporary design icons.

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