First mass-produced plastic chair

First mass-produced plastic chair
Who
Bofinger Chair
What
First
Where
Not Applicable
When
1966
The Bofinger Chair (BA 1171), designed by architect and designer Helmut Bätzner (Germany) in 1964, was the first mass-produced plastic chair. Going into mass production in 1966, and produced in association with the Bofinger Company of Germany, the now ubiquitous stacking plastic chair was a one-piece item made of through-dyed fibreglass-reinforced polyester and created in a single press over a steel mould. The chair was designed with the aim of getting the maximum stability from the minimum possible amount of materials in a rapid and relatively simple process. When mass production started it took just five minutes to produce a chair that possessed the required elasticity, stackability and strength.