News & Updates

CYNARA has won the GOOD DESIGN® Award 2022

January 25, 2023

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About CYNARA

Weightless beauty. Effortless support.

Experience the impossible lightness and effortless support of CYNARA, a task chair that integrates intuitive, responsive functionality with a clean-cut, refined aesthetic to complete any work setting.

CYNARA’s understated will blend harmoniously into all the places people – work from office, to co-working and home office settings – breathing quiet sophistication and calm productivity into any environment.

By paring back to its essential form and function, CYNARA achieves impossible lightness. The frame flexes to provide responsive ergonomic support, eliminationg the need for a complex mechanism. The result is simple, functional, light-scale beauty.

About GOOD DESIGN® Awards

The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd. present the Museum’s annual GOOD DESIGN® Awards Program for the most innovative and cutting-edge industrial, product, and graphic designs produced around the world.  The deadline for this year’s submission is June 1st, 2023.  Each year, The Chicago Athenaeum presents the GOOD DESIGN® Awards Program for the most innovative and cutting-edge industrial, product, and graphic designs produced around the world. 

https://www.good-designawards.com

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