“My chair series He Said/She Said was the first product of the Mattiazzi collection. By now, the works by Sam Hecht & Kim Colin, Ronan and Erwan bouroullec, and Konstantin Grcic have entered and formed an exciting discourse and dialogue. SOLO continues this discourse but from a slightly different point of view, a more reduced one. When SOLO was developed, the aim was to incorporate as much advantages as possible coming from the Mattiazzi production process and combining it into a cost efficient, versatile unique chair.
This robust yet simple and refined furniture family was sought to be used in cafés and restaurants, which is why it offers great flexibility – both in use and in the variations offered. However, though simplicity was the outspoken key feature we were almost forced into, it was very important to find the right nuance and tune the right detail as means of accurately forming the right character for each piece.
In every project special details play a key role, but here they became even more important, as we needed to minimize them in order to maintain cost-efficiency. A special feature of both the chair and stool is a leather inlay, perfectly integrated in the seat surface. Likewise, it offers a wider variety of colour-matching possibilities, as well as the great tactile qualities of natural leather.
SOLO is more of a character, a bit hard but very round, very simple but also intricate, practical and pragmatic but offering a great deal. It’s a café chair, a bar stool that makes no fuss about what it does, a character that says, plainly: «Have a seat» and one happily complies.” Nitzan Cohen
