Kartell launches Clap, the armchair bearing the signature of Patricia Urquiola, specially designed for the contract sector and to extend Kartell's soft line. Clap comes in a wide range of combinations and features seating with elegant and functional fabrics that can satisfy the most varied furnishing needs and has a very sturdy plastic frame, the result of the latest industrial technology.

Born in Oviedo, Patricia Urquiola attended the Madrid Polytechnic and the Milan Polytechnic Universities where she graduated in 1989 with Achille Castiglioni as her supervisor of whom she was assistant at the Milan Polytechnic from 1990 to 1992. From 1990 to 1996 she was at the Product Development Office for De Padova where she co-operated with Vico Magistretti. In 1996 she became design responsible at Studio Lissoni and Associates. In 2001 she opened a studio of planning where she looks after design, installations and architecture. This brilliant Spanish architect is a phenomenon not to be lost sight of.