Zartan, the chair “entirely natural” for Philippe Starck Magis

The conversion of Starck a more useful and intelligent designAfter the pomp surrounding the creation of beautiful objects and a bit ‘useless, we had already had occasion to speak in the past. A few years later, we are pleased to note that his cooling-off does not seem tied to a sporadic ambition, or rather of a temporary marketing gimmick, but it looks to match a fairly radical change of perspective, tied to the comparison with issues of environmental sustainability and the urgent need-and not very fashionable these days-to review approaches, technologies and uses of everyday objects.

Last Salone del Mobile, here it is in fact present, along with Eugeni QuilletNow his right arm, missed the new chair for Zartan Magis. This is a chair made entirely from renewable materials such as bamboo, flax and hemp, to which is added a mixture of waste wood with wax or fish oil better known as liquid wood. A big step forward, no doubt, on the side of the use of renewable materials, here reworked in several finishes aAs satisfy the tastes of many potential buyers.

Interestingly, the same way, the gap created by production Magis, which has the world’s leading plastic seems to want to open a new chance with the decision to shuttle in a post-fossil. We’ll see what the outcome in the future.

Zartan, the new chair in natural materials by Philippe Starck for Magis