The Jill chair is the first collaborative work by Vitra and Alfredo Häberli. Inspired by the early days of plywood moulding, Jill explores the modern boundaries of this technique while offering a surprising level of comfort. In the 1940s, Charles Eames became the first person to successfully mould plywood into three-dimensional shapes, which enabled body-conscious, organically shaped seating furniture never resulted in a one-piece seat shell. A fascination for the sculptural expressive power of these early plywood prototypes is evident in many of Alfredo Häberli’s designs. Jill is Alfredo Häberli’s formal homage to that time, but with Vitra, he moves the aesthetic forward to today, incorporating the state of the art in plywood technology in an organically shaped seat shell.
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