Fish Chair

An easy chair enabling a comfortable, reclined posture, it can be used as a solo piece or in large groups, in domestic or public spaces, and in both indoor and outdoor settings. Made with rotational moulding, Fish Chair has a special insert making it a bi-colour object. It is produced in seven different colours, always with the white inside. Fish Chair was the first chair designed by Satyendra Pakhalé. He recalls: ‘I never designed a chair before Fish Chair, and it is one of those projects which led me to really understand the meaning of prototypes. It went through several prototypes before becoming a product. Looking back, I can feel how important it was to the product-manufacturing process to resolve all the issues through the prototypes.’

“One of the design icons of the third millennium, imagined by one of the few authors capable of truly speaking another language. He is determined to combine the never placated ideal of reaching big numbers, through true industrial production in order to improve people’s lives with a healthy drive towards the expressive pleasure of making a mark on one’s time with objects and gestures that are far from silent, never banal and always original in terms of form.”
— Beppe Finessi and Marva Griffin Wilshire

“Satyendra Pakhalé is a poet of form and materials. Even when his designs are industrial products, like the Fish Chair or the Add-On Radiator, they still have an appeal connected to form and materials. He loves working with many different materials – natural and artificial. Before starting the design of a product, he wants to know all about the possibilities and expressions of a given material. This has roots in his origins and he expresses it in a contemporary way. He is one of those rare designers who can mix this cultural DNA with a present-day sensibility. For design, it is important to make people smile and dream, and he does that with his projects. Experiencing his work is a joy. — Giulio Cappellini