VIA57 is a lounge chair designed as part of a collaboration between Bjarke Ingels and Danish design group KiBiSi for Fritz Hansen, developed to celebrate the completion of BIG's first New York City building — the VIA57 WEST residential tower in Manhattan. The chair translates the architectural concept of the building — a hybrid form that combines the courtyard typology of the European city block with the tower typology of the American skyscraper — into a furniture design of equivalent formal ambition and precision.

The chair's distinctive form captures something of the building's hybrid geometry in a domestic object scale, creating a piece that functions as both a lounge chair of genuine comfort and a design object with an explicit architectural reference. The collaboration between one of the world's most prominent architectural practices and Fritz Hansen's production expertise produces a chair that is resolved in both its design concept and its material execution.

The VIA57 is well suited to residential living rooms and lounge settings where a chair of strong design narrative and formal distinction is the brief. Its architectural provenance and the story of its conception make it a particularly meaningful specification for interiors associated with the architectural and design community, as well as for hospitality and commercial environments where furniture with a clear design concept contributes to the spatial narrative.

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