Edra Chair + Table
Product Design
Melbourne, Australia
Project 1998
About this project
DCM entered an exhibition ‘The Australian Chair’ in 1989 and the Adelphi chair evolved from this design. The firm was looking to design a simple, reasonably priced chair with clean lines for the restaurant and café.
The Italian furniture company Edra Mazzi approached DCM to develop a new dining chair and table based on ideas seen in the Adelphi Hotel furniture.
Edra Mazzei described the chair as … ‘representative of the studio’s architecture: a smart minimalism with refined effects of materials and colours. The chair, with its structure of steel and seat of opaline plastic, resembles, in its thin profile; a folded sheet of paper, offering the simple elegance of a gesture.’
Edra Mazzei requested the design of a suitable table to match, and this was subsequently designed and manufactured – a square table with interchangeable glazed, opaque, or transparent acrylic resin tops in a range of colours.
