We all would want quality design in our home but we often face impossible, almost irrational, prices.
Transparent chairs are a very common case, especially with the popular models from Kartell designed by the great French designer Philippe Stark.
Unfortunately, every time we come across these transparent chairs we run into high prices, that are definitely not very reasonable.
Today, fortunately, we can find designed-inspired transparent Kartell-type chairs at more than affordable prices without sacrificing the quality of composition and manufacture. Philippe Stark himself, creator of the famous transparent chair models Le Marie, Louis Ghost and Victoria Ghost, besides numerous other furniture models, believed in a “democratic design”.
One of its main goals was in fact, that of designing common objects, such as chairs and stools in such a way as to be able to break down the production costs to make them accessible to anyone. The design of a chair whether it is beautiful or ugly, does not particularly affect production costs. It is therefore possible to have transparent chairs with an elegant and sophisticated design that is also affordable.
This desire for accessible design never came true until today. The transparent polycarbonate, an ultra-resistant material with a crystalline appearance, allows us to buy those same transparent designer chairs created by Philippe Stark for Kartell at affordable prices, without sacrificing the quality of materials and composition.
Today, drawings of Le Marie and Ghosts are open to the public and we can find Italian producers who make replicas, entirely Made in Italy, at competitive prices. So let’s see some proposals together.
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Le Marie – B-Side
Le Marie was the first fully transparent chair in the world, the first model made in transparent polycarbonate. The minimal design of this chair has made it an icon of transparency and it has highlighted the qualities of the material, demonstrating its clarity and extreme resistance. This icon is also known to be extremely expensive despite the low production costs. Today we can choose the B-Side, a replica of the most famous Le Marie, entirely Made in Italy but at a much more accessible price.
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Louis Ghost – Joker
Happy with the result obtained with Le Marie, Philippe Stark decided to start playing with the lines to obtain a more sophisticated transparent chair model. The Louis Ghost, so called to recall Louis XV, emperor and symbol of the Baroque style, revisits classic lines to combine elegance and comfort, thanks to its armrests and the well-calibrated position of the backrest. Even more inaccessible of Le Marie, today we have the Joker, replica of the Louis Ghost and it too is entirely Made in Italy. Always made of ultra-resistant transparent polycarbonate, it turns out to be a extreme quality product at an affordable price.
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Ami Ami – Dune
The path opened by Philippe Stark was then continued by other designers. A famous example is that of the Ami Ami, a more contemporary model than the previous icons that is very fascinating. Today’s production techniques make it possible to process transparent polycarbonate to obtain motifs and embroideries that were once unthinkable. La Dune does exactly that but, again, at that affordable price that a “democratic design” always should have.
The possibilities for furnishing your home with transparent designer chairs at an affordable prices do not ends here. The road opened by Philippe Stark proceeds and evolves in the same way the technologies needed to produce quality transparent chairs advance. Today we can have blue or red transparent chairs with a strong visual impact, as if they were built from a single inlaid ruby - like the Femme Fatal – and even embroidered, like the Hypnotic. All this, finally, at an affordable price that brings us closer to that idea of ”democratic design” that Philippe Stark had in mind when he created the first transparent chair in history.
Dune Transparent Polycarbonate Design Chair Made In Italy For Home Interiors