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On a LaCividina order, Nautile takes one line and one number: 8702. The armchair drawn by Peter Harvey in 2011 is listed as a single item, with its form, frame and padding already settled at the factory, so what remains for the person writing the order is the cover. For the project team, that means a short brief to the client and a quotation readable at a glance: one product, one fabric, a quantity.
At a reception or in a waiting lounge, Nautile seats visitors low, at 38 cm, and shows no legs: it rests on a flat base whose bottom is finished in felt. Placed in a row, each chair repeats the same narrow footprint, so the wall reads as a sequence of matching curves. Grouped with other visitor chairs near the front desk, it brings a frame that LaCividina strengthens for public areas and a fabric cover that is fixed to the form for good.
The same armchair moves into lounge use without any change: a hotel lobby, a director’s lounge, the informal side of a boardroom, alongside whatever lounge seating the room already has. A client can also send a plain fabric of their own, 140 cm wide, with a sample in advance. Once made, the cover stays fixed, its stitching backed with carbon fibre, and the manufacturer’s image library is ready for presentations. La Mercanti writes the single code and the chosen fabric on one line of the quotation.
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90 cm, from the floor to the highest point of the back. LaCividina gives this figure both in its 2025 price list and in its 2026 technical sheet, where it is marked on the drawings of the chair.
Wood, in three forms: solid fir, solid beech and beech plywood, as the section drawing in LaCividina’s technical sheet shows. The padding and the fabric of the armchair are built over this structure.
Yes, a layer of polyester fibre. In LaCividina’s section drawing it sits between the flame-retardant polyurethane and the fixed fabric cover, and it is marked with its own letter, C, among the five used in that drawing.
The recommendations come category by category: Opus in Start, Tailor in A, Stretchy in B and Arda in Top are among them. Each one is a fabric that LaCividina names for this armchair in its price list.
Yes, more than half of it. A line of LaCividina’s price list places Nautile in the family of products classified as over 50 per cent wood, which is the figure to quote when a project asks for the wood share of its furniture.
Start from the plan view and only then go to site: five steps with the CAD drawings, BIM models and Planner tool that LaCividina publishes for Nautile.
Download the 2D CAD file and place it in the floor plan. Nautile appears as a rectangle of 45 × 110 cm; this outline, rather than a guess on site, shows where the chair fits in the room.
The 3D CAD model gives the chair in elevation, 90 cm high. Set it next to the front desk, the side tables or the wall units already in the drawing, and read the heights together.
For projects in Revit, LaCividina supplies BIM models and families. Loaded into the building model, they carry Nautile into the views and sheets without anyone having to redraw it.
The manufacturer’s Planner configurator lets the designer test arrangements: a single chair by a window, two side by side, a row along a wall. Compare them in the file before deciding.
Once the layout is settled, attach LaCividina’s technical sheet and pictures from its image library to the drawing set for the client. Plan view and documents then travel together.
