Pratone® Forever designed by Ceretti, Derossi & Rosso for Gufram is a special seat in soft polyurethane finished by hand with Guflac in green color.
Pratone® represents an irreverent design idea; light years away from the usual types of middle-class interior design of the 70’.
Starting from two opposite mysteries - the grass as biological reference, and the material for industrial production as artificial presence - this seat finds its place among the formal research aimed to free people from some of the conditionings of their habitual behavior. A unique and unconventional Chaise longue that has as yet found no ersatz, Pratone has become a reference parameter in the history of design. Included by Vitra Design Museum among the 100 masterpieces of the history of Design, it is an object "outside the box" which maintains its artisanal soul: as a matter of fact, each of the 42 long and soft blades of grass you can sink into is worked and finished by hand, just like the label Pratone, engraved on the base of each module. Its bright green and the softness of its blades of grass are achieved through painting with Guflac, the special and unique paint patented by Gufram that makes it possible to make polyurethane look like leather while maintaining its flexibility and softness. It is for these characteristics that Pratone needs 5 weeks of work to get to the end product.