Wellington, New Zealand

Formway and noho present the new comfortable Lightly Stacking Chair, an ultra-lightweight stacking chair made primarily from a plant-based polymer and recycled post-consumer plastics, that is designed for all social spaces.

Lightly Stacking Chair’s design recently won a 2022 Green Good Design Award from The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.

Lightly Stacking Chair is the first chair to be made with the plant-based polymer EcoPAXX.

The EcoPAXX material used in the chair frame is derived from the highly CO2 absorbent castor bean plant and has an independently verified carbon footprint of just 1.9 (kg CO2 eq./kg) as opposed to a carbon footprint of 6.5 for an equivalent fossil-based polymer.

Its seat pan is made from recycled post-consumer ASA.

Weighing just 5.2lbs, the Lightly Stacking Chair uses less than half the material of comparable chairs.

The structure of Lightly has been fine-tuned to only use material that is essential to the performance of the chair, everything else has been removed.

Being ultra-light, the Lightly Stacking Chair can help set the table for a meal when planned or unplanned guests arrive.

It also enables spaces to be quickly and easily reconfigured for cleaning, storing, or changing activities.

10 Lightly chairs stack to a seat height of just over 3 feet, combined with its economical footprint— Lightly can easily be stored in a cupboard at home as well as it is well suited to commercial spaces such as cafes and conference venues.

This stacking efficiency also translates to shipping efficiency allowing to ship more chairs in a container.

With over 20 years of experience designing performance seating for world-leading brands, Formway has brought the knowledge of comfort to Lightly Stacking Chair by creating a contoured chair back that delivers a light flexing motion and a seat contour that provides just the right amount of support while still providing the ability to move and change postures within the chair.

Its elegant design doesn’t dominate a space enabling people to become the focus.

Its universal scale ensures that it seamlessly integrates and adapts to a wide range of spaces, from small New York City apartments to restaurants and conference venues.

Despite its slim profile and lightweight, Lightly is extremely durable and has been engineered and tested to commercial seating standards (BIFMA), and can comfortably support users of 300lbs.

This durability ensures that Lightly will have a long and useful life in a variety of environments.

Project: Lightly Stacking Chair
Designers: Formway Furniture Ltd.
Manufacturer: noho Ltd.