Fitzgerald armchair with ergonomic design and timeless style.

Fitzgerald | Chair

Jean-Marie Massaud

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NOK 19.480

The Fitzgerald chair has a rigid polyurethane structure reinforced with a metallic insert. The padding is in polyurethane foam and polyester wadding and strengthened with regenerated saddle-leather. Delicate ‘X’-stitching, carried out by hand with contrasting thread, decorates the inside of the backrest and seat.
The edge of the backrest is defined with an aluminium trim with Ruthenium finish, repeated on the feet. The back of the Fitzgerald chair is embellished with double vertical stitching and the branded Poltrona Frau logo. The upholstery is in Pelle Frau® leather.

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Fitzgerald | Chair

Jean-Marie Massaud
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Innate class, international style. A new piece in the sophisticated Kennedy-inspired world created by Jean-Marie Massaud for Poltrona Frau. With its extreme formal simplicity, the Fitzgerald chair exudes elegance in every detail. 

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Jean-Marie Massaud

Born in Toulouse in 1966, Jean-Marie Massaud graduated in 1990 from Les Ateliers, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle, Paris. He began to work both in Asia and in France, finally opening his own office in Paris in 1994. Since than, he has dedicated himself to industrial and furniture design, building important relationships with brands such as Authentics, Baccarat and Magis. His collaboration with Marc Berthier and his work in the field of town planning led him towards design and architecture. He is concerned with design in various contexts, industrial products and furniture. His contextual approach centres on research into the essential, within which the individual remains the centre of attention. It is a work upheld by research into the senses, magic, and vital emotion which brings him to work with very different brands: Cassina, Poltrona Frau, Cappellini, Cacharel, Lancôme, Tronconi and Yamaha offshore.

His works have been awarded several prizes and many of his designs are nowadays on show in the design collections of the major museums worldwide: from Amsterdam, Chicago, London, Paris and Zurich: from the permanent collection of the Musée National d'Art Moderne de Paris to the permanent collections of the Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, of The Chicago Athenaeum- Museum of Architecture and Design, of The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and of The Musée des arts Décoratifs, Paris.

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Fitzgerald is a chair that combines formal rigor, comfort, and tailored detailing in a carefully balanced design. Its character is elegant, international, and never ostentatious—a discreet yet distinctive presence created for those seeking a seating piece that can engage naturally with both the architecture of a space and high-end furnishings. Upholstered in Pelle Frau® leather, featuring hand-crafted X-stitch detailing and Ruthenium-finished metal accents, it is particularly suited to those looking for a refined chair for contemporary interiors, where value is expressed through materials, proportions, and finishes.

 

Around a dining table, Fitzgerald finds its most natural setting. It is an especially fitting choice for those seeking elegant seating for a sophisticated dining room, particularly in interiors furnished with marble tables, dark woods, noble veneers, or glass surfaces. Its clean, understated lines allow it to integrate seamlessly into both contemporary dining spaces and more eclectic environments where classical references coexist with a modern sensibility. In these settings, Fitzgerald helps create an atmosphere that is orderly, cultured, and welcoming—equally suited to everyday living and formal entertaining.

 

The quality of its padding and structure also makes it a compelling solution for those looking for a comfortable dining chair for long dinners, conversations, and hospitality. It is not merely a chair that looks beautiful; it is designed to support extended time around the table with a sense of comfort that feels both controlled and reassuring. For this reason, it is particularly well suited to families who enjoy entertaining, to those who consider the dining room an important part of the home, and to anyone wishing to make a dining area more inviting without compromising on aesthetics.

 

Fitzgerald also performs exceptionally well in professional studios, private meeting rooms, executive offices, and high-end hospitality environments. In these contexts, it answers the need to convey authority, order, and prestige without excess. It can be selected for an elegant conference room, a private office with a meeting table, a representative workstation, or contract spaces where seating must communicate quality and design consistency. Its language—understated yet sophisticated—makes it particularly suitable for professionals, consultants, executives, and organizations that wish to welcome guests with measured elegance.

 

From a stylistic perspective, Fitzgerald is especially appealing to those who appreciate understated luxury, clean lines, and details that reveal themselves only upon closer inspection. The handcrafted stitching, metal profile, and quality of the leather make it an ideal chair for interiors where nothing is left to chance, yet every unnecessary flourish is avoided. In a contemporary, modern-classic, or soft-luxury home, this chair can become an element of visual continuity, naturally connecting the dining table, lighting, and surrounding materials.

 

It is also an excellent choice for those seeking a leather chair capable of enhancing an important dining table without competing with it. In many projects, seating is expected to support the presence of the table and complete the composition rather than dominate it. Fitzgerald excels in precisely this role: it adds quality, depth, and refinement to the overall setting while maintaining a coherent and well-balanced design scheme.

 

Its character also makes it particularly suitable for those who favor furnishings with an international outlook, where restraint, elegance, and a refined attention to detail coexist. It appeals to people who appreciate essential forms supported by exceptional craftsmanship, who seek a sophisticated yet relaxed atmosphere, and who value furniture with enduring aesthetic relevance. In this sense, Fitzgerald works equally well in carefully curated residential interiors and in professional environments where every element must contribute to a coherent and authoritative image.

 

For those completing a prestigious dining room, an executive office, or a refined contract project, Fitzgerald represents a balanced and versatile choice. It is the right chair for anyone seeking comfort without sacrificing elegance, leather and tailored detailing expressed through a restrained form, and a design piece capable of elevating a space with discretion and precision.