Torsion Stack Chair : Products : KI

Product Story

From healthcare to education to business, the Torsion® collection, designed by Giancarlo Piretti, offers superior comfort via flex back at a modest price. Torsion stack chairs provide the comfort of passive ergonomics at a price comparable to fixed-back stack chairs. Perfect for any application, Torsion stack chairs are available in three frame styles - full sled base, cantilevered sled base and straight four-leg. Available in armless or armchair versions with two types of tablet arms available with the full sled base and straight four-leg frame.

Designer Profile

DESIGNER

Giancarlo Piretti

Giancarlo Piretti (Bologna, Italy, 1940) is an Industrial Designer. Among his successful designs are Plia folding chair, his best-seller exhibited at Moma NY, Platone folding desk, and DSC (106-AXIS) seating system. For Vertebra chairs he obtained the Compasso d'Oro (Italy) as well as for his largest project, Piretti Collection office & institutional seating system. Other designs include Xylon wooden chairs, Torsion collection of institutional chairs; Engage & Impulse office chair lines featured by a synchro tilt mechanism Piretti developed; #18000 nesting & stacking chairs; and the Strive chair collection. The Pirouette nesting table and Grazie and Doni chairs for KI U.S. are G. Piretti's latest designs.

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DESIGNER

Giancarlo Piretti