Ferrari Cockpit Chair, Design 2017

The chair fea­tures an archi­tec­tur­al and mod­u­lar struc­ture; the out­er shell of the Cock­pit Chair was formed from car­bon fiber or Alutex.

The swiv­el mech­a­nism reflects the same design and mechan­i­cal ele­ments as a Fer­rari steer­ing wheel and is craft­ed from pol­ished alu­minum with a red adjust­ment knob. This allows the height and tilt of the chair to be adjust­ed. The five-spoke base is also exe­cut­ed in pol­ished alu­minum with black castors.

The padded seat and back­rest are uphol­stered in black leather with a red cen­tral stripe, inspired by rac­ing seats. The dou­ble stitch­ing along the out­er edge of the chair is exe­cut­ed in red thread. The head­rest is cen­tral­ly adorned with an embossed leather pranc­ing horse, Ferrari’s sym­bol. On the front of the seat, the alu­minum ​“Fer­rari” let­ter­ing appears cen­tral­ly as a sig­na­ture, while on the back the emblem sig­na­ture ​“Poltrona Frau 1912” is featured.

His­to­ry:

Fer­rari and Poltrona Frau joint­ly present ​“Cock­pit,” the first and only office chair in a small lim­it­ed series ever designed by the Fer­rari Design Cen­tre. This chair is the result of a col­lab­o­ra­tion between two dis­tin­guished man­u­fac­tur­ers: the leg­endary auto­mo­bile mak­er Fer­rari and the renowned Ital­ian fur­ni­ture man­u­fac­tur­er Poltrona Frau.

The chair was con­ceived and designed by the team led by Flavio Man­zoni, who is also respon­si­ble for the designs of recent Fer­rari mod­els, includ­ing the LaFer­rari Aper­ta, the GTC4 Lus­so, and the 812 Superfast.

The form of this seat would not seem out of place in any of these mod­els. The Cock­pit Chair was designed in two ver­sions: Pres­i­dent and Exec­u­tive. The Pres­i­dent ver­sion, with its high back­rest, resem­bles a rac­ing seat from a Fer­rari and is the mod­el we are able to offer from our collection.

It is the man­ag­er mod­el with a high back­rest that gen­er­ous­ly sup­ports the upper body, its ergonom­ics inspired by motor­sport seats. It rep­re­sents a syn­the­sis of auto­mo­tive inno­va­tion and inspi­ra­tion — the result of 70 years of Fer­rari experience.

Accord­ing to Fer­rari, the same mate­ri­als were used for the seats as those found in the brand’s famous sports cars. The out­er shell of the cock­pit is craft­ed either in car­bon fiber or in Alu­tex — an alu­minum-glass fiber com­pos­ite. Every ele­ment is in har­mo­ny with the brand’s DNA and its abil­i­ty to cre­ate a per­fect bal­ance between per­for­mance and time­less elegance.

Poltrona Frau has long equipped the inte­ri­ors of Fer­rari vehi­cles. With its exper­tise in leather crafts­man­ship and the pro­duc­tion of icon­ic chairs, Poltrona Frau shapes the mate­ri­als, devel­ops the uphol­stery, and cre­ates the most refined and high-per­for­mance mech­a­nisms. The Ital­ian fur­ni­ture brand has incor­po­rat­ed its com­plete ergonom­ic know-how into the mech­a­nism for adjust­ing the back­rest and seat height.

An office chair that cap­tures the excite­ment and speed of a driver’s seat, as well as the pas­sion for motorsport.

The cock­pit is a place where con­cen­tra­tion, quick reflex­es, and intu­ition merge with the will to win. It is a space where the con­tact between body and seat gen­er­ates dynam­ic sen­sa­tions that help the dri­ver steer the car as effi­cient­ly as pos­si­ble. The archi­tec­tur­al and mod­u­lar struc­ture of the chair gives it its unmis­tak­able appear­ance, mak­ing it a per­fect collector’s and enthusiast’s piece — not only for Fer­rari fans, but espe­cial­ly because this chair is no longer in production.