Santa & Cole, Ediciones de diseño S.A.

The Belloch chair was created at the beginning of 2009 by the Lagranja Design studio for Santa & Cole's headquarters in Parc de Belloch, where a chair for everyday use was needed. The result, with stylistic evocations of Charles and Ray Eames, has very topical environmental concerns.

Santa & Cole's technical team, in collaboration with the company SP Berner, has devoted time and effort to studying an innovative material, an original 100% recycled and recyclable blend.

Different industrial processes allow us to manufacture a contemporary and inexpensive chair, suitable for indoor (with natural beech wood legs and felt pads to muffle the noise) and outdoor (with matt anodized aluminium legs) use.

The material of the seat and the back is composed of 60% recycled polypropylene from post-consumer plastic waste, and 40% recycled wood dust from sawmills. It likewise contains ultraviolet light stabilizers to lengthen its working life and to prevent the material from degrading with the passing of time, above all outdoors, and retardants which allow the spreading of the flame to be delayed in the event of a fire.

At the end of its working life, both the seat and back and the legs can be recycled to manufacture products with lower demands as regards aesthetics and resistance of the material.

The investment in research, development and technological innovation demonstrates the environment concern of Santa & Cole, whose modest contribution is to understand design as a creative process in which the essential aspect is not how to appear, but rather how to disappear.

International Interior Design and Hospitality Design Product Award 2009

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