The Bat chair with polypropylene shell is a variation on the eponymous chair, fully upholstered in fabric or leather, designed by GamFratesi.
With its wrap-around shell, the chair looks like the wingspan of a bat, and is extremely comfortable to sit on.Â
Its design is both refined and functional, two important concepts in the Scandinavian tradition. Its synthetic shell makes it more affordable.
The Bat tube base chair is available in 5 different shell colours and 5 different leg finishes.
Shell polypropylene – upholstered seat or front upholstery as an option
Legs steel – various finishes
Dimensions 61 x 57 x H83 cm Seat height 44,5 cm
alabaster white shell + antique brass legs
black shell + antique brass legs
dark green shell + antique brass legs
new beige shell + antique brass legs
sweet pink shell + antique brass legs
alabaster white shell + black chrome legs
black shell + black chrome legs
dark green shell + black chrome legs
new beige shell + black chrome legs
sweet pink shell + black chrome legs
alabaster white shell + black matt legs
dark green shell + black matt legs
new beige shell + black matt legs
sweet pink shell + black matt legs
alabaster white shell + brass legs
black shell + brass legs
dark green shell + brass legs
new beige shell + brass legs
sweet pink shell + brass legs
alabaster white shell + chrome legs
black shell + chrome legs
dark green shell + chrome legs
new beige shell + chrome legs
sweet pink shell + chrome legs
Light Bouclé 001 + matt black legs
Around Bouclé 023 + matt black legs
Karakorum 003 + antique brass legs
Plastic shell
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Plastic shell
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Fully
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light boucle 001 fabric (price group B) / brass
light boucle 008 fabric (price group B) / black chrome
light boucle 003 fabric (price group B) / black matt
GamFratesi
Stine Gam was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1975. She is educated architect with a master in furniture design. Enrico Fratesi was born in Pesaro, Italy in 1978. He has studied architecture and graduated with a master in industrial design. Gam and Fratesi gained experience as architects in several architecture studio in Japan and Scandinavia before establishing their own design studio in 2006.
The studio is based in Copenhagen, though Gam and Fratesi are continuously traveling between Italy and Denmark for development and research of new projects. GamFratesi’s design takes its creative drive from a fusion of tradition and renewal and in an experimental approach to their chosen materials and techniques. With their dual traditional background, Stine Gam and Enrico Fratesi draw on the classic Danish furniture and craft tradition as well as the classic Italian intellectual and conceptual approach. Understanding a tradition and addressing it actively in the workshop makes it possible to expand on it. From this cross-cultural substrate they create furniture that respectfully reflects tradition while also featuring unique embedded stories, symbols and associations, often expressed in a minimalist idiom.
GamFratesi aim to create furniture that illustrates the process and the techniques that created it, and which reflect a persistent exploration of the diverse border zone between harmony and disharmony. GamFratesi have received significant awards including Elle Decoration International design award (EDIDA) as International Young Designer of the Year 2013, Guest of Honor Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair 2014, selection Compasso D’oro / ADI , Nomination Best Designer Icon design award 2014, Vico Magistretti Award by De Padova, the Chicago Atheneum Museum of Architecture’s Good Design Award, Best Danish Designer 2012 by Bolig magasinet, ‘Walk the Plank award 2009’ and Best Danish Designer 2009 by RUM.
Their work have been shown in numerous exhibitions, Triennale di Milano, solo exhibitions at the Museum of Art and Design Copenhagen, Art Museum Trapholt Kolding, Palazzo Litta, Shanghai as well as collective exhibitions Mindcraft in Milano, Royal Danish Embassy in Tokyo, and Design Miami/Basel.
