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Stand beside Nautile and the whole chair becomes a single stroke. It climbs to form the back, dips to make the seat and lifts once more at the toe, with no arm and no leg to break it, and not one straight segment along the way. Back and seat are one volume in fabric, so the side is the view worth planning around: face on, the chair reads narrow and tall, while from the flank it lies on the floor like a long curve. It is Peter Harvey’s design, dated 2011, and LaCividina makes it.
Placed in a waiting area, it lowers whoever is waiting to 38 cm (15 in) above the floor, and nothing reaches the floor except a flat base with felt underneath. Lined up as reception chairs along a wall, each one stands on a frame LaCividina reinforces for use in public areas, and the cover, in fabric, is fixed: it does not come off.
Once it leaves the waiting area, the same piece turns into a lounge chair, in a hotel hall, an executive lounge or the informal corner of a meeting room, next to the lounge seating already in place. Its fabric comes from nine categories, Start to Special, or from the client as a plain cloth announced by a sample; CAD 2D and 3D drawings and BIM/Revit families wait on the manufacturer’s website. La Mercanti sets the side elevation against the reception desk on the drawing, to see which of the two is taller.
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Polyurethane foam made flame-retardant. That is how LaCividina describes the padding of Nautile, and it is one of three features the manufacturer lists for the chair on its own website, next to its other construction details.
No, the cover is fixed. LaCividina upholsters Nautile in its selected fabrics as a permanent covering, and the technical sheet describes it that way, so the fabric chosen when ordering is the one the chair keeps.
3.10 m (3.4 yd) per armchair. It is the quantity LaCividina states for COM upholstery, and the figure to multiply by the number of chairs when a whole waiting room is being covered in the same cloth.
CAD 2D and CAD 3D drawings, plus BIM models and Revit families, all downloadable from LaCividina’s website. They can go straight into a floor plan or a building model, with the technical sheet and an image library alongside.
Either, because it is one armchair with two uses. In a reception it is seating for visitors; in a hotel hall, an executive lounge or an informal meeting corner it serves as a lounge chair. The construction is identical in both places.
Delivery is planned around the carton, not the chair. Five steps with the packed figures LaCividina gives for Nautile, so whoever brings it in knows what is coming.
Two figures matter. Out of its packaging the armchair weighs 24 kg (53 lb); boxed for shipping it weighs 29 kg (64 lb). The carton is what travels, so the second number is the one for delivery.
Each packed chair occupies 0.60 m³ (21.2 cu ft). That volume, rather than the size of the chair itself, is what has to make its way through the building on the day.
Multiply weight and volume by the number of armchairs ordered. A row of chairs for a waiting room arrives as that many cartons, and the totals are what the delivery is planned on.
Send those totals to whoever is delivering. They are the people who check the access to the building, the floor and the room against the numbers you have given them.
When the cartons are opened, compare each chair with the order: code 8702, the fabric that was chosen and the felt at the base. Any difference is raised before the chairs go into place.
