Monobloc

Universally recognized yet frequently discarded, since its creation in the 1970s, the Monobloc plastic chair has been the world's best-selling piece of furniture. With more than a billion units in circulation worldwide, this deceptively bland piece of furniture was originally conceived by designer Henry Massonnet as a fashionable commodity for upper-class consumers. The pursuit of lowered production costs above all else soon turned the Monobloc into a symbol of cheap design, environmental waste, and bad taste across much of the Western world.