Ghost Chair

The Ghost armchair works from a single premise: a chair made from nothing but glass, curved into shape rather than assembled from parts. The idea is not a see through object for its own sake; it is a study in dematerializing the sense of a piece of furniture, so that whoever sits in it becomes the visible subject rather than the chair itself. Glass is treated here as a container built for a body, in the same way a vessel is built to hold a liquid, except the shape curves around a person instead.

The chair is formed from a single sheet of curved glass, 12 millimeters thick, with no separate frame, joints or fixings holding it together. Because the whole form comes from one continuous surface, the chair reads as one uninterrupted volume from any angle, without the seams a joined structure would show. It was presented for the first time at the Salone del Mobile in Milan in 1987, where it won a prize in a competition run by the magazine Interni inviting visitors to choose the most innovative product on show.

As a piece built from glass rather than upholstery or wood, the Ghost armchair works best as a single accent within a room, somewhere its transparency can read against a wall or a window rather than being lost among patterned or heavily textured furniture. It suits a living space where the goal is to keep a seating area visually open, since the chair adds a seat without adding visual weight to the room.

For full specifications, materials, and configuration options, visit the Fiam Italia official website.

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