Description
Plaka Chair (1973). Arch. Ricardo Blanco.
Made in yellow PLA. Ideal for decorating desks and shelves, adding style and personality to your space.
Dimensions:
Width: 10 cm
Height: 13 cm
Depth: 0.5 cm
Weight: 35 g
(Available in other colors and sizes upon request)
History:
The Plaka Chair was designed by Ricardo Blanco between 1972 and 1973, in an Argentine context shaped by late modernity, local industry, and the need to conceive intelligent, economical, and reproducible objects. Blanco—an architect, designer, and influential design theorist—sought to create a piece that would resolve structure, ergonomics, and folding capacity with the minimum possible resources. The result was a chair made from a single sheet of laminated wood, precisely cut and folded, without artifices or superfluous elements.
One of its most fascinating features is that the Plaka folds until it becomes virtually flat—so much so that it can be hung on the wall like a painting. This duality (functional object / graphic object) made it iconic. Its name is no coincidence: it derives from “plate” (placa in Spanish), but spelled “Plaka” by Blanco’s own decision, reinforcing its almost conceptual character. The chair was originally produced by the Argentine company Indumar and became a silent manifesto of national industrial design— austere, ingenious, and deeply modern.
Over time, the Plaka transcended borders and is now part of the permanent collections of MoMA (New York) and LACMA (Los Angeles), an exceptional achievement for an Argentine design piece of that era.
