Belleville Armchair by Vitra was designed by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, the French brothers whose design practice has produced some of the most influential furniture of the early twenty-first century across their long collaboration with Vitra. The Belleville series, introduced in 2015, takes its name from the cosmopolitan Paris neighbourhood and captures something of its democratic, sociable character: the armchair has a generous, openly hospitable seat form — shell-like in its enclosure yet light and transparent in its material execution — designed to support the kind of relaxed, unhurried conversation that defines a long meal or an extended café visit. The shell is available in polypropylene or upholstered versions, mounted on a slender, four-legged base structure in wood or metal.
The Belleville Armchair sits precisely at the productive boundary between a dining armchair and a lounge chair — its seat depth and back height invite a slightly more reclined, relaxed posture than a conventional upright dining chair, while its overall dimensions remain appropriately scaled for use at a dining table. This versatility makes it effective in residential dining rooms, hotel restaurant environments, café and bistro interiors, and any hospitality context where the design intention is for guests to feel genuinely at ease at the table rather than formally seated at it. The shell geometry, with its subtle curvature and organic shoulder profile, is unmistakably Bouroullec in character.
Architects and interior designers specifying the Belleville Armchair for residential dining, restaurant and hospitality environments will find the DWG drawing and CAD block useful for table-and-chair layout, clearance planning and interior elevation documentation. The 3D model supports BIM-accurate spatial coordination in dining project models. A refined specification for any interior project requiring a dining armchair of considered contemporary French design by one of the period's most respected studios.
Available as a 2D DWG drawing and 3D model.