Polypropylene stacking chair

The polypropylene stacking chair is one of the very few chairs that after over 50 years is still in production and has been made in forty countries around the world, for schools, hospitals, airports, canteens, restaurants, arenas, hotels, as well as homes.

[2] The chair first appeared on the market in a choice of charcoal or flame red colours at a little under £3 in price.

The brief from Hille was for a low cost mass-produced stacking chair, affordable by all and to meet virtually every seating requirement.

The one-piece seat and back was injection moulded from polypropylene, a lightweight thermoplastic with a high impact resistance.

Examples of the 1973 polypropylene stacking chair can be seen at Clifton Cathedral, Bristol, where it is used for the Nave and Sanctuary seating.