PMR
Made entirely of steel, the PMR indoor lounge chair is a work created by modernist architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha.
The metal alloy gives the illusion of a rigid chair, but its thinness makes it a flexible seat that bends to the weight of its user.
The PMR lounge chair, described as giving the sensation of floating in space (P. Mendes da Rocha), offers three different inclinations.
This very exclusive piece will be an exceptional touch for your interior.
" In the middle of the 80’s I visited the spring manufacturer Indústrias de Molas Sueden in São Paulo. A powerful factory of cold bended steel springs bound as well to locomotive as to delicate motor mechanisms. There I saw 25 cm wide steel coils as thin as a paper sheet. I immediately thought of the idea of a human body stretched out on this thin flexible sheet like floating over the ground (Henry Moore!?).
To reach the width I needed I put together two sheets while leaving an empty and longitudinal space between these in order to release the spinal column and to allow the body to relax on the muscles. This space also enabled me to fix a small cylindrical cushion for the neck.
The transverse bars, which link the two steel sheets, were strategically distributed all over the length of seat in order to enable three different inclinations.
I did not make any particular research to achieve it. This idea was born from the continuation of the Paulistano armchair concept. An idea focused on steel flexibility properties."
Paulo Mendes da Rocha - December 2009
Data sheet
- Dimensions
- L.161 cm x H.75 cm x l.53 cm
- Weight
- 50 kg
- Steel
- Powder coated steel