MC_01

One piece of equipment that affords both seating and listening, without compromise.

A continuously bent two-inch brushed stainless steel tube forms the frame. The cushions are large, blocky and built for comfort.

Every driver fires through the upholstery. Ultrafabrics Brisa is nearly transparent to sound, so foam and fabric sit in front of the drivers without muffling them. The backrest is the subwoofer enclosure, nearly one cubic foot, housing an eight-inch bass driver. The neckrest holds two four-inch full-range drivers at ear height, aimed slightly off-axis toward the listener.

The amplifier sits in an actively cooled box inside the seat cushion, with a control panel on its side: one knob for power and volume, one for bass. Getting those controls off the board and into the chair was the hardest part of the build.

Proportions were set from Henry Dreyfuss’s The Measure of Man and a study of classic lounge chairs.

Around ninety-eight pounds, thirty-four hundred dollars in material and five to eight hundred hours.