Altherr Désile Park

Cila and Cila Go

Cila chair with a fluid, cloth-inspired form that wraps softly around the body, suited to residential or contract interiors and especially to dining settings. Cila Go reimagines learning spaces with mobile, flexible elements that support collaboration, independent work and technology-enabled education.

Arper

2017

A simple gesture with a sensuous feel. Cila’s fluid form draws on the image of layers of cloth gently enveloping the body, its smooth silhouette shaped by a single protective curve. The plastic shell conveys an almost handmade softness, enhanced by warm, clay-toned colours. Its gentle presence is easy and welcoming, moving naturally between residential and contract settings, particularly in dining and social spaces.

Cila Go reimagines learning spaces through mobile, flexible seating that supports collaboration, independent work, and technology-enabled education. It introduces new aesthetic possibilities to the learning sector while providing the functions these environments demand—mobility for group work, quiet solutions for focused tasks, and accessories that integrate digital tools into an ever-evolving idea of the classroom.

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Design

Lievore Altherr

Client

Arper, Italy

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Cila and Cila Go × Arper

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A SIMPLE GESTURE, A SENSOUOS FEEL

For the fluid form of Cila, we were inspired by the image of layers of cloth enveloping the body. Its silhouette of smooth lines retains a graphic character from its distinctive curve — the most essential symbol of shelter. Like being protected, like being held: a protective concept that connects to earth, to the handmade, to clay, to skin. That same sensibility inspired the colour range — tones that evoke the warmth and softness of clay, a material with the same haptic appeal as the form itself.

Cila's easy shape blends naturally into both residential and contract environments. Its delicate silhouette makes it suitable for a wide range of applications — from hospitality spaces to the intimacy of the home, from meeting rooms to home offices. The polypropylene shell can be a small armchair or a chair, both combine with different bases: wooden legs, sled, and trestle. With the introduction of Cila Go in 2018, it naturally extends into education spaces.

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GANDALF GOES TO SCHOOL

Learning at its best is magic. Cila Go extends the idea of enveloping form to an unusual starting point for an education chair: the silhouette of a sage — think Gandalf or Obi-Wan in a long, sweeping cape. Far from the typical technical image of learning chairs, with a touch of humour and a sculptural instinct, we translated that image into a form that is closed and protective from behind, creating a sheltered space for books and bags under the seat.

A different way of thinking about a typology usually defined by robust, almost sportive shapes, Cila Go became a mobile, flexible system that supports collaboration, independent work, and technology-enabled learning — for students of all ages. The storage base doubles as a stool, and an optional swivel-arm tablet integrates digital tools into a spatial proposition that adapts as fluidly as the learning itself.

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EVERYWHERE AT EASE

Cila became one of our most successful collections, fitting equally well in both residential and contract environments: from hospitality spaces to the intimacy of the home, from meeting rooms to home offices, from restaurants to universities and training centres. Elegant, discreet, and warm, the shell is at the same time classic and contemporary.

The almost triangular signature gesture works just as well as a single piece as it does in a group, creating a graphic cadence across a space. Repeated, the form generates a rhythm — a subtle visual pattern that gives a room character without imposing on it. It is the kind of shape that rewards repetition, becoming more itself the more of it there is.

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Awards

  • "Innovationspreis Architektur + Office" award by the architecture magazine AIT for Cila Go

  • Cila Go selected for Style Park

  • Cila Go IF Gold Award

  • CREATIVE DIRECTION

    Studio Altherr

  • PRODUCT DESIGN

    Lievore Altherr

  • ART DIRECTION

    Studio Altherr

  • IMAGERY

    Marco Covi, Scheltens Abbenes, Salva López, Claudia Mauriño

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