Michael — Richard Hutten

Michael - Richard Hutten 01 modusfurniture.co.uk Description Materials

The Michael stool is a simple high and low stool with tubular, steel Legs Steel tube with textured powder coat legs in a choice of textured powder coat colours. The smooth Foot Nylon glide recycled cork seat is available in a natural or dark toasted finish.. Agglomerated cork made from 100% recycled Cork is warm, tactile, anti-microbial and easy to clean. Michael Seat cork granules in a natural or toasted dark finish. will work well in any setting that calls for a lightweight stool with a playful simplicity.

Michael - Richard Hutten 02 modusfurniture.co.uk Michael - Richard Hutten 03 modusfurniture.co.uk Michael - Richard Hutten 04 modusfurniture.co.uk Natural high Natural low Dark high

MIC001 MIC002 MIC003 Height: 775 mm Height: 480 mm Height: 775 mm Width: 400 mm Width: 315 mm Width: 400 mm Depth: 400 mm Depth: 315 mm Depth: 400 mm

Packed: Packed: Packed: Dims: 800 x 420 x 420 mm Dims: 500 x 340 x 340 mm Dims: 800 x 420 x 420 mm Weight: 5.6kg Weight: 4.3kg Weight: 5.6kg

Dark low

MIC004 Height: 480 mm Width: 315 mm Depth: 315 mm

Packed: Dims: 500 x 340 x 340 mm Weight: 4.3kg

Michael - Richard Hutten 05 modusfurniture.co.uk Designer — Richard Hutten

Rotterdam based Richard Hutten is one of the most influential and successful Dutch designers. He is well known for his conceptual and playful designs. A true innovator, he has established himself as one of the leading international figures in his field, continuously pushing the boundaries of design.

Playfulness is an important aspect of Richard Hutten's work. Referring to ‘Homo Ludens or “Playing Man” by the Dutch historian and cultural theorist Professor Johan Huizinga, Richard Hutten’s designs aim to contribute to the importance of play as culture. Therefor his designs are not only beautiful but also optimistic and fun.

He is a key exponent of “ Design” in which he has been involved since it’s start in 1993, making him one of the main founders of the famous movement. Since 2008 is Richard Hutten the art director of Gispen, Holland's second largest and most famous furniture brand with an almost 100 years of history.

His work is held in the permanent collections of over 40 museums around the world making him one of the most collected living designers. The list includes MoMA New York, Victoria & Albert Museum , Centraal Museum , Vitra Museum Weil am Rhein, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Design Museum London, Design Museum Gent, Stedelijk Museum ’s Hertogenbosch, Chicago Art Institute and the Stedelijk Museum .

Michael - Richard Hutten 06 modusfurniture.co.uk Finishes Maintenance

The finishes shown are our standard powder coat finishes, if you To keep Michael looking its best we recommend regular, wish to specify any finish other than these options please contact gentle cleaning with a slightly damp cloth.. Any spills should us to discuss your requirements. be immediately blotted with an absorbent cloth. Stains may be Please note that colours are for reference only. tackled gently with a soft cloth. Any cleaning products must be used with care and in accordance with the manufacturer’s recommendations. The steel frame may be dusted with a soft Warranty brush.

Michael carries a five year warranty. For further details please refer to the terms and conditions of our Warranty document.

Base

RAL3005 RAL5008 RAL7021 RAL7044 Wine red Grey blue Black grey Silk grey

Seat

Natural cork Dark cork

Michael - Richard Hutten 07 modusfurniture.co.uk Environmental Information Material Content*

Our mission is simple, to create furniture of the highest standards - Steel 1,39kg (58%) in terms of design, quality and durability that enriches life today - Cork 0.94kg (40%) without compromising tomorrow. Our products are thoughfully - Polyester 0.03kg (1%) manufactured in the UK with respect for environmental limits - Nylon 0.02kg (<1%) and an understanding of the interconncectedness of a healthy economy, society and environment.

Michael has been crafted from 100% recycled cork, industrial scrap produced in the manufacture of wine corks. By choosing cork, we are supporting both the preservation of cork oak forests, *Weights and material percentages have been biodiversity hot spots, and traditional cork harvesting techniques, calculated using MIC002 the highest paid agricultural work in the Mediterranean basin.

Through a partnership with Movement On The Ground, every sale of the Michael stool helps fund a mission to provide a dignified, sustainable and innovative response to the refugee crisis.

Recycled Content Recyclable Content 54.4% 100%

Certification Pre Consumer Post Consumer Recycled Content Recycled Content 44.9% 9.5%

Michael - Richard Hutten 08 modusfurniture.co.uk Sustainability

Approach For every ten products we pledge to plant a tree, reforesting once We take a broad and holistic approach to sustainability, forested land with native, broadleaved species at our factory site considering every aspect of a product’s footprint from in South Somerset and in our local area as part of our ReForest embodied carbon, to wider impacts on ecosystems and scheme, which will provide biodiverse habitats where wildlife can society. Our Sustainability Policy, which can be seen on our thrive, and capture carbon for years to come. website, targets seven key areas: Co2 emissions, resource use and protection of habitat and biodiversity, production Packaging & Distribution of waste, VOC emissions and harmful substances, plastic We aim to keep our plastic footprint to an absolute minimum footprint, ethical purchasing and a corporate social across all operations of our business. Our most significant responsibility programme that has a particular focus area of impact is packaging. We are phasing out all plastic that on the designers of the future. cannot be recycled, gradually replacing plastics with bio-based, compostable alternatives. If you would like your order delivered Our furniture is hand crafted in Somerset using 100% packaging free please talk to our team. renewable energy. We are a Carbon Neutral Plus organisation. We are yet to transition to an all-electric fleet, until then we Our products can help gain credits under environmental aim to minimise delivery miles by careful planning and we are assessments such as WELL, BREEAM, LEED and SKA rating, choosing to offset these emissions with reforestation projects speak to our team about your sustainability goals at that are verified to the PAS 2060 standard. [email protected] Life in Use Design We view our products as material banks for the future and would We take a circular approach to product design, designing like to see them used over multiple lifetimes before being stripped furniture that lasts and can easily be repaired and disassembled into their individual materials for recycling. This means that we for multiple lives in use. At end of life, our furniture may be taken offer replacement parts wherever possible, including zip off back for remanufacture and given a new lease of life. Materials and fabric covers which may be bought separately. If you have any processes are carefully considered so that we can manufacture damaged part please take a photo of it and contact us to arrange products with the lightest footprints. a replacement.

Materials End of Life & Producer Responsibility Dematerialisation is a key consideration, we aim to create In our journey towards a circular economy we have established the best products from the fewest resources, using renewable an in-house remanufacturing centre, ReWork. If you have some materials or materials that are part of a continuous loop. of our products that you no longer use, please contact us to We rigorously design out waste and limit and avoid the use arrange collection and we will remanufacture each piece, of potentially harmful substances and the creation of VOC retaining maximum value from every part. emissions, keeping our products as healthy as possible. We use CertiPUR certified foam and EU Ecolabel approved, Community & Society low VOC emitting, water-based lacquers. We hold FSC™ chain We think carefully about whom and where we buy, and have of custody certification and can offer the vast majority of our a clear ethical purchasing policy in line with the ETI and UN products with FSC certification. We aim to use materials with the Global Compact. highest recycled content and those that can be readily recycled. We carefully consider how we can benefit our local community Production and we have close links with local schools and colleges, donating All upholstery and joinery is manufactured in our Somerset scrap wood, board and fabric to the Design & Technology factory using 100% renewable energy. Manufacturing in-house departments of three local schools and sponsoring Art & Design helps keep furniture miles to a minimum. We use a combination awards, young enterprise schemes and local arts organisations. of digital technology and hand-crafted techniques to produce We have active apprenticeship schemes, offer work experience durable furniture of the highest quality. placements and paid internships. We are proud to be an Accredited Living Wage Employer.

Carbon+ Neutral Organisation

Michael - Richard Hutten 09 modusfurniture.co.uk Sustainably Made in our Somerset factory Head Office

All upholstery and joinery is manufactured using 100% Cricket St Thomas, Chard renewable energy. Manufacturing in-house helps keep Somerset TA20 4BZ furniture miles to a minimum. We use a combination T +44 (0)1460 258590 of digital technology and hand-crafted techniques F +44 (0)1460 57004 to produce durable furniture of the highest quality. [email protected]

Showroom

28–29 Great Sutton Street London EC1V 0DS T +44 (0)207 490 1358 [email protected] TC011v1