


Architonic ID: 1551347
Year of Launch: 2018
Concept
Meta is a family of seats made entirely of coated aluminium, ready for indoor and outdoor use. The chair and the low stool are stackable. Based on the manufacturing process of the bodywork of racing cars in the past, thanks to the use of metal rivets the Meta collection has been developed specifically for the furnishing of a restaurant which also contains a museum area featuring vintage cars.
The design challenge was to make a chair totally in aluminium, without the costly deep-drawing dies called for by industrial production. The profile of the aluminium sheet adapts to the selected method of construction: the design of the back permits the bending of the support by hand, while the seat is curved to follow the form of the load-bearing structure below.
material:
aluminium
finish:
powdercoated aluminium
This product belongs to collection:
Aluminium, Base metal, Metal, Seat metal

Italy
Giulio Iacchetti, industrial designer since 1992, designs for many brands including Abet Laminati, Alessi, Artemide, Ceramiche Refin, Danese, Fontana Arte, Foscarini, Magis, Moleskine, Pandora design. The distinctive characteristics of his work is the research and definition of new object typologies, like the Moscardino, the biodegradable spoon/fork designed with Matteo Ragni and for which, in 2001, he has been awarded with Compasso d’Oro. In 2009 he was awarded the prize for innovation – Premio dei Premi – by the President of the Italian Republic for the Coop Eureka project, which brought the design in the large-scale retail trade. In May 2009 the Triennale di Milano held a solo exhibition entitled “Giulio Iacchetti. Disobedient objects “. In November 2012 he launches Internoitaliano, the “factory network” made up of many craftsmen labs with whom he signs and produces furniture and accessories inspired by the italian way of living. He had also pursued his personal research project into new design topics such as the symbol of cross from which came the exhibition titled Cruciale held by the Diocesan Museum, Basilica di Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome and by Castello di Lombardia in Enna, Sicily. In 2014, he won his second Compasso d’Oro for the design of the manhole covers Sfera, designed with Matteo Ragni for Montini.