Innovation ON

As restaurants go they don’t come more unusual than Ultraviolet by Paul Pairet Shanghai. Located in a bunker on the outskirts of central Shanghai, Ultraviolet offers a fine-dining experience that eclipses its peers for creativity. With a 20-course menu for just 10 diners each night, the mood is set for something different. The environment of Ultraviolet is a cornucopia of light, scent, sound, temperature and culinary delight that translates into an experiential and theatrical occasion.

The restaurant is simply furnished, but the inclusion of Wilkhahn’s ON chair is an innovative design twist. Five ON chairs are placed at each side of a communal dining table. With each course, an accompanying video projection and bespoke soundtrack play to complement the cuisine.

The ON chair provides the very latest in ergonomic luxury, ensuring guests enjoy their night with optimum comfort. Wilkhahn developed Trimension® for the ON chair, a unique feature that allows for threedimensional, synchro-adjusted dynamic seating. Trimension® enables forward, backward and sideways movements as well as the ability for the pelvis to rotate.

As a result, the body’s equilibrium remains in absolute balance, no matter what posture it adopts or the way it moves.

Ingenuity in a restaurant deserves innovation in the chair in which we sit. The ON chair, while consummate for an all-night stay at Ultraviolet, is perfectly tuned for use both at the office and at home.

wilkhahn.com photo: Scott Wright of Limelight Studio