The Corset is a chair I began studying ten years earlier. It seems unbelievable because, seeing the final result, you’d think it came to me in one go.

Designing yet another stackable chair, with and without arms, made of a plastic shell and metal structure, that would be original without being banal, was almost impossible, though I tried.

The memory of the unsurpassed Jacobsen is always present, but I believe I solved his one limitation –the proper integration of armrests– quite successfully.

Plastic injection molding always reveals thickness variations on one side that show on the opposite side. I turned this necessity into a virtue: the essential ribs on the back side became visible on the front, becoming the distinctive element of the seat and justifying the name that the chair eventually received.

After the bankruptcy of the producer Amat, the mold owners continued production of the chair without honoring the contract or paying the agreed royalties. Not only for the Corset but also for other notable chairs by Jorge Pensi and Javier Mariscal. All three of us (friends and recipients of the National Design Award) filed a lawsuit which, after a long process, we won. It was an historic ruling in defense of the authorship of original designs.

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