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title: "Kai chair"
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# Lapalma

Kai chair

Year of design: 2006 | Design: [Shin Azumi](https://www.stylepark.com/en/designer/shin-azumi)

![Kai chair](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/l/lapalma/produkte/kai-chair/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/kai-chair-1.jpg)

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Playing with paper, was the start of this project. If you fold a piece of paper you get a crisp edge, and if you bend it you get a gentle but tensioned curvature. I tried to fix the beauty of this natural phenomena as a chair. The name, KAI, is a Japanese word and its pronunciation can be interpreted in several different meanings: KAI can be a “seashell”. The oppositional two elliptical lines recall an opened seashell. KAI can be “comfort”. KAI can be “meeting”. KAI can be “answer”. KAI can be “pioneer”.

![Kai Chair 3](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/l/lapalma/produkte/kai-chair/_697xAUTO_fit_center-center_none/kai-chair-3.jpg)

![Kai Chair 4](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/l/lapalma/produkte/kai-chair/_697xAUTO_fit_center-center_none/kai-chair-4.jpg)

![Kai chair](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/l/lapalma/produkte/kai-chair/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/kai-chair-2.jpg)

- [Manufacturer's Product-Info](http://www.lapalma.it/product.asp?lng=02&m=2&id=152)
- [Manufacturer's website](https://www.lapalma.it/)

All Kai products

- [![Kai bar stool upholstered](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/l/lapalma/produkte/kai-bar-stool-upholstered/_350x225_crop_center-center_none/kai-bar-stool-upholstered-1.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/lapalma/kai-bar-stool-upholstered)
- [![KAI Chair upholdstered](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/l/lapalma/produkte/kai-chair-upholdstered/_350x225_crop_center-center_none/kai-chair-upholdstered-1.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/lapalma/kai-chair-upholdstered)
- [![Kai bar stool](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/l/lapalma/produkte/kai-bar-stool/_350x225_crop_center-center_none/kai-bar-stool-1.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/lapalma/kai-bar-stool)
- [![Kai chair](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/l/lapalma/produkte/kai-chair/_350x225_crop_center-center_none/kai-chair-1.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/lapalma/kai-chair)

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