Italian brand Magis has launched Bell Chair, a lightweight, low-cost stackable monobloc chair made of recycled polypropylene. In this exclusive video produced by Dezeen, designer Konstantin Grcic explains how he created a product that is "just over half of the weight of a normal chair".
Launched today with a dedicated website, the injection-moulded chair comes in three colours and can be used indoors and outdoors. It retails for just ?77 and weighs 2.7 kilogrammes.
"It's just over half of the weight of a normal chair," Grcic said in the video interview with Dezeen's founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs. "It's quite sophisticated."
The chair is made from industrial waste and can be recycled again at the end of its life. "But its life is designed to be long," Grcic added. "We are not designing a chair that is disposable within years." The Bell Chair weighs just 2.7 kilogrammes
In the video, recorded remotely using video-conferencing app Zoom, Grcic described the form of the chair as "an eggshell with four C-shaped legs."
The ovoid form ensures the chair achieves the maximum strength from the minimal amount of material while the C-section legs allow it to be stacked.
Monobloc chairs, made from a single piece of injection-moulded plastic, are the most common type of chair in the world.
When asked what was different about his design, Grcic said: "Well, in a way, nothing. But we are not reinventing the chair; w...