designboom history: the monobloc plastic chair what’s the world’s most famous chair?

the anonymous, cheap, light-weight, portable, waterproof, stackable, easy to clean, plastic patio chair, manufactured from one (ca. 2 kilogram) piece of polypropylene in a single process. in our latest history article designboom sheds some light on the essential history of monobloc plastic chair. read more images: (top) ‘selene’ chair by vico magistretti, produced in 1969, (bottom) anonymous provisional armchairs, archetypes of cuba’s remarkably inventive recycling, by ernesto oroza.