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Poliform Leopold chair

Leopold is Jean-Marie Massaud's answer to a common complaint: dining chairs are made to be left after an hour. The chair arrived in 2024 as an enveloping cushion held in a minimal wooden structure, and the armchair followed in 2025 with the same idea and more volume.

Designer
Jean-Marie Massaud
In the catalog
2024 to 2025
Pieces
2
Price
on request
Poliform Leopold chairs at a dining table, Poliform chairs

A dining chair built like an armchair

The cushion wraps rather than sits flat, so the chair holds you at the sides as well as underneath. That is normal in a lounge chair and rare at a table, where the convention is a shell and a thin pad. Massaud kept the wooden structure thin around it, which stops the chair from looking like a small armchair pushed up to the table.

It changes how a dining room is used. A table with Leopold chairs keeps people at it after the plates are cleared, which is either exactly what you want or a reason to choose something crisper. For a house that entertains, it is the argument for the family.

The armchair from 2025 takes the same wrapped cushion into a larger frame. Ordered together, the chair at the table and the armchair in the corner of the same room read as one thought; ordered separately, either stands alone.

Wood is the only structural material here, and the finish is the decision that moves the price. Six chairs in a dark stain and six in a pale one are the same money and a different room, and we quote whichever two you are choosing between.

The cushion wraps at the sides, which is why nobody leaves the table.

Poliform Leopold armchair with wrapped cushion, catalog photograph
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What is in the Leopold family

Poliform Leopold: pieces, types and materials as listed by the factory. Every price on request.
PieceTypeMade ofNotes
Poliform Leopold chairChairsSolid wood, fabric or leather cushionIn the catalog since 2024
Poliform Leopold armchairArmchairsSolid wood, fabric or leather cushionLarger volume, since 2025
How a Poliform Leopold piece is built up, layer by layerCoverfabric or leather, by gradeWrappingfibre over the foamPaddingpolyurethane foam, wrapped at the sidesSeat shellmoulded cushion bodyFrameminimal solid wood structuresection
A section through a Leopold seat, from cover to frame. Layers are named as the factory names them; thicknesses are drawn for reading, not to scale.

Jean-Marie Massaud

Massaud reimagined dining as something you stay at, then built the chair backwards from that.

More by Jean-Marie Massaud

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