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Tropico chair on a plain light background, with a red tube frame, cream canvas seat and wooden armrests, seen at three-quarters.

Tropico Chair

2025

for Zara Home

The brief behind this chair involved creating a seat that could work in indoor and outdoor spaces. The selected material palette had a canvas slip cover as a seat and backrest with a metal tube frame underneath. The result is a very light seat that can be used all year long inside and outside of any environment. The name tropico talks about life in the tropical enviroments, where pieces like this become very relevant. This chair is currently part of Zara Home's offering.

Photography courtesy of:
Zara Home
Available at:
https://www.zarahome.com/
Side view of the Tropico chair on a glossy dark blue wooden floor, with a white-framed window behind it.
Tropico chair in a lived-in corner beside a white ceramic vase with brown dotted bands, on a woven rug in front of a fireplace.
Red-framed Tropico chair on a stone terrace, next to a white railing and a small table with orange juice, overlooking the sea.
Front view of a Tropico chair with green and cream striped canvas and a white frame, standing in shallow water on a sandy beach.
Side view of a white-framed Tropico chair with a cream blanket draped over its back, in front of a stone wall and the sea.
Two close-ups: cream canvas beside the red frame and wooden armrests, and the chair's red frame and canvas seat on a black background.
Design process collage: a black line sketch of the chair, a colour chart with cream and rust fabric swatches, and close-ups of the red frame and canvas.