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In einem privaten Garten auf grüner Wiese steht eine sitzgarnitur aus vier weißen Plastikstühlen und einem runden Tisch mit gelber Decke

Four monobloc as garden furniture and seating set

The Monobloc is a stackable plastic seat furniture that has been manufactured since the early 1970s. The injection production made of polypropylene in one piece (monobloc) and an operation is the name.

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Features of the monobloc, which is manufactured as a chair, armchair and stool, are its low weight, stackability, its favorable price and the possibility of recycling or downcycling the plastic chair or stool. [first] The monobloc itself as well as its production process is not protected by the patent, [2] So that he was able to spread worldwide and with an estimated one billion copies, the best -selling furniture ever is. [3]

The French engineer and industrialist Henry Massonnet from Nurieux-Volognat with his “Fautalsteuil 300” from 1972, the French engineer and industrialist Henry Massonet are the inventor of the MonoBloc, [4] which embodies the prototype of the cheap plastic chair today. [5] He received support in the development from his long -time friend, the designer Pierre Paulin, who had already designed many chairs and also made a name for himself as a interior decorator. [3]

The monobloc was initially with a price of 300 French Franc (which corresponded to around 300 euros in 2022) [6] An expensive shop keeper. Massonnet optimized the production so far that a production cycle lasted less than two minutes and brought through his company Stamp The new models Tango, Boston and Sirtaki onto the market. He was followed by various producers in Europe and worldwide, which copied Massonnets chairs and easily modified. [first]

With a injection mold, up to 1500 chairs can currently be produced in 24 hours. Depending on the model, the amount of the output material used is polypropylene between 1.7 and 3.5 kg. You go from costs of around 2.50 euros for 2.5 kg plastic granulate [3] out of.

  • Der Monobloc
  • Joe Colombo: Stuhl Universale 4867, 1965, Kunststoff, zweiteilig, höhenverstellbar und stapelbar. Vorgänger des einteiligen Monobloc-Stuhls.[7]

    Joe Colombo: chair Universal 4867 , 1965, plastic, two parts, height adjustable and stackable. Predecessor of the one-piece monobloc chair. [7]

In 1998 the chair in the 2nd German Bundesliga awakened media attention. Horst Ehrmantraut, then coach of Eintracht Frankfurt, pursued his team’s home games – unlike usual – away from a monobloc away from the coaching bench. The chair reached cult status after the ascent to the next higher league was achieved in the same year. Today the Monobloc, known as the “ascent chair”, is located in the Eintracht Frankfurt Museum. [8]

  • 2010: 220 °C Virus Monobloc – The Infamous Chair , Arnd Friedrichs and Kerstin Finger published a book about the Monobloc chair in 2010. [9]
  • 2017: Monobloc – a chair for the world , Exhibition in the Vitra Design Museum, SchauDepot because on the Rhine. [4] [ten]
  • 2021: Monobloc , Documentary, Hauke ​​Wendler has made a 90-minute documentary about the chair since 2013, which had its premiere in 2021 at the DOK.FEST Munich and came to German cinemas in January 2022. [11] [2] [twelfth]
    • 2022: Monobloc – On the trail of one billion plastic chairs On the basis of his film, Hauke ​​Wendler wrote a podcast in six episodes of approx. 30 minutes each, which he produced with NDR Info and Deutschlandfunk Kultur and which deepens the topic and his critical view. [13]
    • 2022: MonoBloc, also based on the film by Hauke ​​Wendler, design of Rutger Fuchs, 192 pages, 120 illustrations, Hatje Cantz, Berlin 2022. [first]
  1. ↑ a b c Hauke ​​Wendler: Monobloc . Hatje Cantz, Berlin 2022, ISBN 978-3-7757-5187-2.
  2. ↑ a b Hauke ​​Wendler in conversation with Gesa Ufer: Documentary film “Monobloc” – a cheap plastic chair conquers the world. Deutschlandfunk Kultur, May 6, 2021, accessed on May 7th, 2021 .
  3. ↑ a b c Monobloc the most hated chair in the world. In: Florian Siebeck, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH, www.faz.net. 4. May 2017, accessed on November 5, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Monobloc – a chair for the world , About exhibition in the Vitra Design Museum on the museum homepage.
  5. ↑ You have a design classic in your garden. In: Naomi Gregoris, TagesWoche, Basel, tageswoche.ch. March 14, 2017, accessed on November 5, 2019 .
  6. ↑ In 1972, 300 French Franc were about 190 D-Mark (→ www.deutschlandinzahlen.de ). This would correspond to around 320 euros in 2022 (→ Inflation calculator 1 ) or 339 euros ( Inflation calculator 2 ). In the Hauke ​​Wendler podcast, there is talk of around 150 euros.
  7. ↑ Monobloc Chair: Joe Colombo and Vico Magistretti
  8. ↑ The Rhine-Main derby and Ehrmantraut’s “promotion chair”. December 17, 2021, accessed on December 21, 2021 .
  9. ↑ Arnd Friedrichs, Kerstin Finger: 220 °C Virus Monobloc – The Infamous Chair . 1st edition. Design, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89955-317-8.
  10. ↑ The omnipresent In Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung of April 30, 2017, page 53
  11. ↑ The film Monobloc (Directed by Hauke ​​Wendler) , DOK.FEST, Munich, 2021
  12. ↑ “Monobloc”, documentary, Germany 2021, directed by Hauke ​​Wendler, film start: 27.1.2022 , on RBB, January 28, 2022.
  13. ↑ Ed.: Monobloc. On the trail of one billion plastic chairs. Accessed on April 19, 2022 .

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