Conference chairs with a writing tablet: Seela by Lapalma

A training room with tables seats twenty; the same room with tablet chairs seats thirty and rearranges in minutes. That is the case for Seela with its swivelling tablet — a writing surface in 10 mm HPL or Fenix, black or white, that turns the chair itself into the workstation. For campuses, academies and corporate learning centres, the tablet version means the room needs chairs, a screen and nothing else.

The chair underneath is Antti Kotilainen’s design for Lapalma: a sinuous polypropylene shell running into the seat, an insert fixed by four screws and interchangeable between wood, polypropylene and fabric, and a roster of bases — stacking sled and four-leg versions for the seminar hall, swivel bases on self-braking castors, stools at 65 and 75 cm for lab benches, low lounge versions for breakout corners. The stacking chairs carry EN 1728 and EN 16139 level 2 extreme declarations, and the series is covered by an EPD.

La Mercanti configures mixed fleets for Indian campuses and corporate academies — tablet chairs for the classroom, plain versions for the boardroom, stools for the café — under one specification and one point of contact.