Strictly speaking, armchairs are simply chairs that feature armrests. Over time, they have become associated with comfort, and some designers, on a quest to reduce the armchair’s form to its essence, have omitted the chair’s eponymous armrests altogether. Nowadays, the product group is varied, offering a wide scale of seating solutions, ranging from traditional, through minimalist, to wholly conceptual.
For tradition with a twist, consider Jasper van Grootel’s ‘Plastic Fantastic voltaire I’ by JSPR or Maarten Baas’s ‘smoke Chair’
Strictly speaking, armchairs are simply chairs that feature armrests. Over time, they have become associated with comfort, and some designers, on a quest to reduce the armchair’s form to its essence, have omitted the chair’s eponymous armrests altogether. Nowadays, the product group is varied, offering a wide scale of seating solutions, ranging from traditional, through minimalist, to wholly conceptual.
For tradition with a twist, consider Jasper van Grootel’s ‘Plastic Fantastic voltaire I’ by JSPR or Maarten Baas’s ‘smoke Chair’