Nordic
£ 2,504
Milani: the tailored office chair — bespoke thinking, Venetian making
Most office chairs are bought off the rack; Milani cuts them to measure. The Venetian group — «half a century of design innovation» behind it — declares its trade plainly: «office and contract seating tailormade in Italy». Task and executive chairs, conference and waiting seats, acoustic pods for noisy floors, even a quick-delivery line (Milani48) for projects in a hurry — each configurable in finishes and fabrics, including SEAQUAL® polyester recycled from marine plastic and REVIVA yarn spun from bottles. Tailoring, it turns out, scales.
La Mercanti specifies Milani for UK offices — seating measured on the project, not picked from a shelf.
Synua
£ 1,755
FAQ
What does tailoring mean at contract scale?
Configurability with discipline: frames, mechanisms, fabrics and finishes chosen per project — so two hundred chairs match the interior exactly, instead of the interior adapting to the chairs.
Which fabrics carry the sustainability story?
Two with receipts: SEAQUAL®, polyester recycled from marine plastic, and REVIVA, yarn from recycled bottles — upholstery whose provenance survives an ESG audit.
How to specify seating like a tailor
Five fittings between the floor plan and the final chair.
Measure the use, not the room
Hours seated per day decide the mechanism class.
Fit the fabric to the duty
Traffic, cleaning and light exposure pick the textile.
Match the palette
Chairs tailored to the interior read as architecture.
Add the quiet room
An acoustic pod completes the open plan's wardrobe.
Keep the pattern
Record configurations so reorders fit like the first batch.