VR58 chair

VR58 revisits an easy chair originally designed by Vjenceslav Richter for Expo 58 in Bruxelles. Defined by a precise tubular frame and a characteristic X-shaped base, the chair expresses Richter's fascination with structural clarity and geometric order.

With no surviving technical drawings, Prostoria reconstructed the chair through an analytical process based on archival photographs, extracting original axes, inclinations and proportions in a 3D environment. Tube diameters were increased for stability and the seating angle subtly adjusted for comfort.

For the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels, Richter designed the Yugoslav Pavilion — ranked by Architectural Review and L'Express among the most outstanding achievements of the entire exhibition. The original chair from this context became the basis for VR58.