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The number to remember is 17 3/4 in: that is all the width Nautile asks for. The chair spends its size elsewhere: it runs 43 1/4 in deep and stands 35 3/8 in high, so in a lobby it claims its room in length, not across. Against a wall, a run of them costs little frontage per seat; turned at an angle, each one draws a long curved stroke on the floor. This is a 2011 Peter Harvey design, produced by LaCividina.
As seating for a waiting room, it puts visitors down low, with the seat at 15 in, and it shows no legs at all and no arm either: seat and back run on as one continuous upholstered form, which comes down to a flat base finished in felt. Order it as one of the guest chairs in a reception and the frame underneath is one LaCividina reinforces for public areas, while the fabric cover is a permanent one, never slipped on.
Beyond reception, the same chair works as lounge seating in a hotel lobby, a lounge on the executive floor or the casual far end of a conference room, beside the Italian lounge seating around it. LaCividina offers nine fabric grades, from Start to Special, and accepts a client’s own material in a solid color; CAD 2D and 3D files, BIM/Revit families and the Planner tool are posted on its site. La Mercanti tapes the footprint on the lobby floor before the quote goes out.
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One. Nautile is a single armchair with a single item code, 8702, so an order for it names that code, the fabric and the number of chairs needed for the space, and nothing more has to be decided.
Yes, as COM, customer’s own material. LaCividina accepts it in a solid color only, on a 55 in bolt, and asks to receive a sample of the fabric before the order goes ahead, so the cloth can be approved first.
3.4 yd for one chair, the quantity LaCividina gives for customer’s own material. For a waiting room with several Nautile, multiply that figure by how many chairs are going in before the fabric is ordered from the mill.
The price list names a few, grade by grade: Ringo in Start, Xtreme in A, Main Line Flax in B and Hallingdal 65 in Maxi. These are the manufacturer’s own suggestions inside each fabric grade, a starting point for the selection.
Both, and it is the same chair either way. Specified for a waiting area it serves as guest seating at the front desk; placed in a hotel lobby, a lounge for senior staff or an informal corner of a conference room it reads as a lounge chair.
A spec section that leaves nothing to guess: five lines describing Nautile the way LaCividina’s price list and technical sheet do, from identification down to the felt base.
Line one names the product: Nautile by LaCividina, design Peter Harvey, 2011, item code 8702. Add the overall dimensions as the maker gives them, 17 3/4 × 43 1/4 × 35 3/8 in, with the seat at 15 in.
Line two covers the structure in the manufacturer’s terms: fir and beech in solid wood, plywood in beech, and a Masonite panel. Write the four materials exactly as stated, without substitutes or generic wording.
Line three is the padding: flame-retardant polyurethane foam, then a layer of polyester fiber between the foam and the fabric. Keep the term flame-retardant just as LaCividina applies it to the foam.
Line four records the cover: fixed upholstery in fabric, with the grade chosen from Start to Special, or COM when the client supplies the material. A fixed cover is decided once, at the time of the order.
Line five ends with the base, finished in felt. Any code compliance the project calls for is then verified on that project, against the documentation LaCividina provides for Nautile.
