We found this incredible Sine chair prototype from Marc Newson, build by Cappellini in 1991, one year before the production.

 This item is very interesting, because prototypes of Marc Newson are very rare, and not often offered to be seen and to be sold.

This one was build in 1991 by Cappellini, during the creation process of the sine range products: a chair and tables.

 The sine chair was an extrapolation of the embryo chair, an ultra-thin version of it, intented to be cheap.

The embryo was conceved in 1988, and was one of the first discernible style. There's an obvious symetry, and the interior is as important as the exterior.

The project of the sine chair was to pick up the same metal structure as the embryo chair: a tripod structure, with a visible construction.

But with the intention to be thin, the ideas were to:

    - elevate the structure for a chair, with an horizontal seat and vertical rest

    -  remplace cushion and uphostery with thin cushion or resin rest and back.

    - use aluminium to have a light weight

This prototype is one of the 3 made in 1991. Two were made with wood and cushion in fabric, and this one was made with resin. 

Back and rest are rounded and curved, and screwed on little metal sticks. The resin is painted with a blue lacquer, in the range of the saturated colors of Newson's colors. This blue lacquer is in the Cappellini color range for the orgone and the felt chair, and in other products like the bucky and alessi products (sygma).

But the issues were:

- the three feet elevated structure was too instable

- the resin back and rest were too fragile, screwed directly on metal.

So the production version was a different version, far from the first intention:

    - a four feets structure

    - cushion based on wood panel

    - structure in steel, and not in aluminium, cheaper and more heavy for stable seating 

If you're interesting to buy this chair, please contact us in the contact section.