The ‘Eu/Phoria’ Project, a chair designed by Italian designer Paola Navone for Italian company Eumenes transforms a material typically used in the automotive sector – for car interiors – and translates it into the form of a comfortable monocoque shell seat. The material is called woodstock®, a compound of polypropylene and powdered wood that comes in hardwearing and flexible thermoformable sheets. Beyond its use as an industrial material, eumenes dedicated itself to research fabrics that can be bonded to the shell to glue and cut it perfectly flush to the form during moulding, and which can be matched with soft polyurethane.
