This is the Solair chair, an icon of mass market design that is excellent, comforting (and comfortable), and at one time ubiquitous in motels, home patios, and casual meeting places.
According to the Toronto Sun (June 10, 2009):
Michelange Panzini and Fabio Fabiano designed the now familiar plastic seat with open cutwork, snapped on to a steel rim. The company that ordered it paid about $5,000, a fortune for them. “We opened champagne and gave away the rights,” Panzini recalls.
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