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Draw a rectangle of 88 by 78 centimetres behind the desk before you think about colour. That is the floor a Congress 135 occupies, the most in its family. Mascheroni builds this high back boss chair on a load-bearing frame of solid wood, pads it with foam rubber of the non-deformable kind, and builds the back from three cushions set one above the other. A chair of this size is never squeezed into a cabin afterwards. The cabin is arranged for it.
The width counts twice, because the seat revolves: those 88 cm have to stay free on every side the chair can turn to. It tilts as well, its height is adjustable, and the base has five spokes, which Mascheroni makes in wood or in steel. The covering is always leather. Anyone looking for executive chairs in real leather can pick any natural bovine hide from Mascheroni Leather Colour System, the upholstery the maker lists for the Congress.
The family steps down by width. After the 135 at 88 cm comes the Congress 127 at 85, the second presidential model, with a somewhat lower back. Congress Conference and Congress V both measure 71 cm: the first revolves and belongs at the conference table, the second is the fixed visitor chair, with feet in front and castors behind. La Mercanti marks the 88 by 78 cm on the cabin drawing next to the desk before anything else is chosen, so the chair has its room on paper first.
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To Contemporaneo. Mascheroni arranges its production in two lines, Heritage and Contemporaneo, and lists the Congress under the second, among the office armchairs. There the maker sorts its chairs into three groups: presidential, conference and visitors. The Congress fills all three, with the 135 and the 127, the Conference and the V. For an office being furnished room by room this is handy: the MD's room, the conference room and the visitor side can be drawn from one family and one line.
It is built as three cushions placed one above the other, and you can read them in the two horizontal lines that cross the back. The Congress 127 carries the same three on a lower height. The Congress Conference and the Congress V are made differently: each has a back in one single field of leather. The seat of the high-back models follows the same idea, with a cushion resting on a second layer.
Yes. Among the leathers Mascheroni describes there is a vegetable-tanned cuoietto, made from European bovine hides, 2.2 mm thick and tanned with natural tannins taken from trees. The maker says it takes almost 40 days to turn the raw hide into this leather, that it ages without spoiling and takes on warm tones with use, and that it is difficult to bend, fold and sew because the material is so firm. Whether it suits a particular Congress is a point to settle with Mascheroni when the leather is chosen.
Most of it, by the maker's own account. Mascheroni states that the components of every product are made predominantly by hand, with the help of latest-generation machinery, and that everything is then assembled completely by hand. The phrase to hold on to is hand assembly. On a leather chair of this build it means that frame, padding and covering are brought together by a person, piece by piece, and the company adds that each senior master craftsman works beside a younger, already experienced one.
Mascheroni says so about its production in general: the finished product weighs on average 50% more than a normal product. The reason it gives is material. The structures of its sofas and armchairs are made predominantly in solid wood, and the Congress too stands on a load-bearing frame of solid wood. The figure is an average across the company's furniture and is to be read that way for the Congress as well.
Five steps to furnish a conference room from the Congress family: the Conference along the table, a 135 or 127 at the head, the V for guests, one leather for all, and the figures that decide the spacing.
The Congress Conference is 71 cm in width. Allow that much for each seat along the table edge, plus the space people need to turn, since the chair revolves. Divide the length of each side by that figure and you have an honest seat count before any order is written.
The Conference has a lower back, 97 to 104 cm overall. For the person who chairs the meeting Mascheroni offers two taller presidential models, the 135 and the 127. Put one of them at the head and the hierarchy is clear from the door, with the same leather and the same lines all the way down the table.
The seat of the Conference can be set anywhere between 50 and 57 cm, using a control lever placed below it, and the chair tilts with regulation. Check that range against the height of your table top. The armrests travel together with it, between 63 and 70 cm, so confirm that they pass under the table edge at the height people will really use.
Under the Conference there is a base with five spokes, in wood or in steel, and Mascheroni describes its castors as swivelling and suitable for every surface. Marble, wooden flooring and carpet are all covered by that statement. Choose wood or steel by looking at the legs of the table: the base is what shows beneath it.
For visitors there is the Congress V: fixed, with an overall height of 96 cm and a seat 50 cm from the ground. It has feet at the front and castors at the back, which make it easier to move. Order them in the same leather as the table chairs and the room reads as one family.
