Ghost Chair

Monolithic chair in 12 mm-thick curved glass.

“A perfect synthesis of technological experimentation and formal research, the Ghost armchair, designed by Cini Boeri and Tomu Katayanagi, represents the desire to dematerialise the perception of function in favour of the user, who thus becomes the absolute protagonist of the room”

Ghost means shadow, trace, semblance, spirit, soul. Only glass is able to turn this abstract concept into a physical object. Making this transformation was the challenge met by Cini Boeri and her partner Tomu Katajanagi when they decided to give glass the shape of an armchair, i.e. a container that contained not liquids but human bodies.

Compasso d’Oro Career Award 2022