Lounge chair

– Lounge chair for Kansai International Airport Passenger Terminal Building –
To search for a fitting design for the nearly 9,000 lounge chairs for the Kansai International Airport Passenger Terminal Building.
The goals were to create an image of seats that seem to float within the terminal’s vast space and to achieve the greatest economy by minimizing elements. The result was a base made of two main tubes connected at two places with double tubes attached to the four aluminum-cast legs, the plywood seats and back supports covered with polyurethane-filled, artificial leather cushions. Each seat is fixed to the main tubes with a pair of aluminum connecting-pieces.
The lounge chairs come in five basic colors- Red, Blue, Yellow, Orange & Green, adding accent and warmth to the soft gray tones of the terminal interior. About 200 chairs of each color were selected for each boarding gate. The smoking corners set aside within this basically non-smoking airport were equipped with chairs of a sixth color- Purple. The six colomns were chosen from bright, hues traditional in France.