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Revolt
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About this product
Architonic ID: 1032708
Year of Launch: 1953
Concept
Many aspects of the Revolt were regarded as extremely innovative when it was first introduced back in 1953 and it has won a permanent place in the office,restaurant and Dutch living rooms. The Revolt chair is at home in every environment. After the chair had been out of stock for a number of years, Ahrend reintroduced it in 2004. Once again it has proven that a product that still has something to offer just gets better as the years go by. Revolt is available in black, white and in dustgrey.
• classic chair with four legs
• plastic seat and back
• option: felt glides
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Specifications
Material
Base plastic, Plastic, Seat plastic
Distributors
Designers
Friso Kramer
Netherlands
Friso Kramer, born in Amsterdam in 1922. After graduating from the Rietveld Academy of Applied Arts, Amsterdam, he worked as a designer for Cirkel, a steel furniture manufacturer, from 1948 to 1963. In 1963 he became a co-founder of the acclaimed Total Design Group. Later on he was a guest lecturer at the Royal Academy of Art in Den Haag. From 1971 to 1983 he was Art Director and a Member of the Board of the Ahrend Group and member of the jury for many international design competitions. In addition to the famous 120 bench system that is still in use in many underground stations today, he designed a chair in glass fibre-reinforced polyester with a solid wood frame and an upholstered glass fibre-reinforced chair for Wilkhahn in 1967.
