Blending creative design and technological research is part of Kartell's DNA. New materials continually pose new challenges, and, as always, Kartell continues to invest significantly in order to overcome new limits, time after time. From the ongoing dialogue between design and technological innovation comes Matrix, the new seating evolution, created by Tokujin Yoshioka with an innovative structure that reproduces a three-dimensional effect, bringing extraordinary lightness and refinement. A seat created by combining the visionary and experimental ideas of the designer and the sophisticated production technology of Kartell, which uses an injection moulding technique combined with a metal structure.
Kartell, once again, overcomes a new technological barrier, creating a mould to recreate a three-dimensional mesh, overlapped and criss-crossed, in which thanks to the particular injection technology, layers of transparent or batch-dyed polycarbonate create a single-pressed structure that simulates a wire mesh in the various forms. Thanks to extensive research and a meticulous design process, the difficulty in filling the mould that creates this unique structure has been overcome, making it possible to create, for the first time in plastic and on an industrial scale, a product that boasts unique design, strength, durability, flexibility and production technology.
“Kartell invests in order to make our products the perfect balance between technological research, originality, attention to detail and industrial production, factors that are important both today and for the future”, says Kartell President Claudio Luti. “Matrix continues this journey, incorporating absolute quality and the ever-new application of revolutionary materials and technologies. As always, we have accepted a technological challenge and turned it into an innovative product destined to become a new best seller in our catalogue. Kartell has experimented for the first time with the use of polycarbonate applied to such a complex mould, expanding the productive and creative possibilities of our products”.