The Softshell Chair is a very flexible piece of furniture in more than one sense: it is just as suitable for conference and visitor areas, temporary workstations and home offices as it is for the dining table, either at home or in a restaurant. The premium Tress fabric offers an unparalleled quality of finish, while the polyamide base offers an air of subtle luxury; an incredibly comfortable seat perfect for the contemporary home. Also available is an accompanying Vitra Softshell Side Chair.
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, the Breton-born brothers, are the stars of European design and the most promising industrial designers to have emerged from France since Philippe Starck in the 1980s.
A combination of romanticism and functionality runs throughout both brothers’ work. Like all truly talented designers, the Bouroullecs have defined a distinctive visual style, which Jasper Morrison (one of the designers they most admire) described as “thoughtful and disciplined, with a real spirit and poetry”.