Catifa 46 is reinterpreted with a shell made using 100% recycled plastic, sourced from a blend of post-consumer and post-industrial waste. Discover Catifa (RE) 46 and join us in redefining beauty through sustainability!

The “office” is no more: we live, we work. Today’s workspaces must add value to our lives, fostering both individual contemplation and group collaboration. We seek privacy when needed and public interaction when our tasks require it. More importantly, we desire spaces that reflect who we are, aligning with our ambitions and sensibilities.

Designed in 1951 in Bo Bardi’s adopted home of Brazil, the Bowl Chair is an icon of Lina Bo Bardi’s adaptive style. Balancing the worlds of industrialized fabrication and the individualized object, Bo Bardi envisioned the Bowl Chair as flexible in structure while universal and essential in form. But, as with all of Bo Bardi’s designs, the ultimate emphasis remains on the human interaction with the object.

In partnership with the Instituto Lina Bo e P.M. Bardi in São Paulo, we produced the Bardi’s Bowl Chair in a limited edition of 500 pieces.

Comprised of 29 layers of paper bonded with natural resin, PaperShell significantly reduces environmental impact by capturing carbon dioxide throughout its lifecycle. With Catifa Carta, we not only minimize our carbon footprint but also embrace the concept of circularity.

Catifa Carta: How to measure the impact of an innovation that goes beyond existing models? Our Sustainability Manager Michela Possagno speaks with Sara Gransinigh, researcher at the University of Piemonte Orientale and sustainability consultant at Innovation and Sustainability, and Senior Consultant Nicola Fabbri about — our iconic chair reimagined in with a carbon-negative shell — and how to measure an innovation that goes beyond today’s standards.

How can we redefine beauty through circularity? In this episode we explore how the application of PaperShell to Catifa Carta is setting a new standard for circular design in the industry.​​