Chair with raw metal frame and licorice polyester cover 75cm Gelato - Moustache

Designing a chair most often consists in seeking the essence of the typology in order to reduce it to its bare minimum, in the hope of turning it into a sign so pure that it becomes universal and refers to nothing other than its function.
Gelato offers quite the opposite!
With it, the formal expression of function is reduced to the strict minimum in favour of a sculptural formalisation free from any preconception or received idea.
Stripped of all the signs and features that allow a chair to be identified or distinguished, Gelato wipes the slate clean of our representations and invites us to question everything.

A true statement piece, Jean-Baptiste Fastrez's Gelato chair, fluid and slender, asserts an extraordinary sculptural presence, reinforced by a stark contrast with the elementary geometry of its pedestal, into which the body of the chair is anchored so that the two become one.

Sculpture or chair? The ambiguity remains until you sit down and experience its complete comfort and welcoming character.

It is indeed a chair, but one of those that consider the little time spent sitting on them cannot justify reducing them to their function alone.
Beyond its primary function, Gelato offers an unofficial one: to inhabit and enter into conversation with the space, and to interact with its user by prompting questions and/or contemplation.
Moving from a functional object to an object activated beyond its use, the Gelato chair takes care not to be merely an inanimate object and to exist beyond its function.

Made in France and extremely sturdy, the Gelato chair uses recycled materials and waste-free manufacturing techniques.
Thanks to its invisible zip, its seamless cover can be removed very easily, machine washed and slipped back on just as you would slip on a fitted dress with a zip down the back.
And if, having chosen the Blueberry cover today, you decide tomorrow to dress it in the Lime cover, you can always order it and change it yourself in under 5 minutes!