A two-day seminar is long enough to drain any laptop battery, and an auditorium where delegates queue for one wall socket during the tea break is an auditorium that has not been planned. Genya can be ordered with provision for an electric power supply, with the socket itself supplied on request, so that charging happens at the seat rather than in the corridor.
The point is to decide this early. The provision belongs to the chair as manufactured, and the cabling has to arrive at every seat before the rows are fixed. Done at the drawing stage, it costs a line on the layout; added later, it means lifting the hall.
The rest of the chair is equally considered. Dante Bonuccelli gave Genya a minimal, elegant form; the backrest is sprung, and its lumbar support adjusts itself as the seat is lowered, and the padding uses polyurethane foam in different densities that keeps its shape through a full day of sessions. Every surface the occupant touches is covered in a choice of fabric, faux leather or genuine leather.
Its primary use is as auditorium and theatre seating, but the same rows serve conference halls, institutional assembly rooms and multipurpose spaces equally well; and where the project allows, the manufacturer's Floor Technology can even fold the seats away beneath the floor. Because the socket is fitted on request, a hall can wire every seat or only the rows where delegates work on laptops.
