Designed by Italian engineer-designer Alberto Meda for Vitra in 1996, the Meda Chair uses a self-adjusting synchronous tilt via two lateral pivots, contemporaneous with Herman Miller’s Aeron in office-chair history.
- Brand
- vitra
- Description
- Self-adjusting task chair commissioned by Vitra chairman Rolf Fehlbaum from Italian engineer Alberto Meda; Good Design Gold Prize Japan 1997 and Bundespreis Produktdesign 2000. Spun off into the MedaPro and MedaPal families.
- Designer
- alberto-meda
- Themes
- ergonomics
- Year
- 1996
Connections
Outbound
- Produced by → Vitra
- Designed by → Alberto Meda
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