Patrick Lindon
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Patrick Lindon is a Swiss industrial designer best known for his Business Class seating and cabin interiors for Swiss International Air Lines
. He began designing and building furniture in 1980 and opened his design office in 1983. He has been producing his own line of modular furniture since 1998. The ‘T71 System’ is sold worldwide and is part of the collection at the Museum of Design Zurich
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Swiss International Air Lines has been flying Business Class Seating and Cabin Interiors designed by Patrick Lindon Industrial Design since 2001. The most recent seating and interior design was unveiled in May 2008. The new Business Class seats are fully reclinable, with a two meter long bed. The staggered arrangement of seats is a world premiere and offers a high degree of privacy and mobility within the aircraft cabin. The seating has been installed on all of Swiss' long-haul fleet.
In 2011, Swiss won the Business Traveller Award for ‘Best Airline for Europe’ for the fifth consecutive year, as well as ‘Best Airline for North & South America’ and ‘Best Business Class’.
From invention, design development, right through the final production of the Vantage Business Class seat, Patrick Lindon been in close collaboration with James Thompson
from Thompson Aero Seating. A research and development, engineering and patent holding company
, Thompson Aero Seating is based in Portadown
in County Armagh
, Northern Ireland
. They are best known for their space-saving airline seating design. In February 2011, Thompson’s opened their first seat manufacturing and assembly plant. The improved Thompson Vantage seats will be completed by the end of 2011.
Patrick Lindon Industrial Design is based in Walchwil, Switzerland, with offices in Zurich, Basel and London.
Swiss International Air Lines
Swiss International Air Lines AG is the principal airline of Switzerland operating scheduled services in Europe and to North America, South America, Africa and Asia. Its main hub is Zurich Airport...
. He began designing and building furniture in 1980 and opened his design office in 1983. He has been producing his own line of modular furniture since 1998. The ‘T71 System’ is sold worldwide and is part of the collection at the Museum of Design Zurich
Museum of Design Zürich
The Museum of Design, Zurich is a museum for industrial design, visual communication, architecture, and craft in Zurich, Switzerland.- Overview :...
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Swiss International Air Lines has been flying Business Class Seating and Cabin Interiors designed by Patrick Lindon Industrial Design since 2001. The most recent seating and interior design was unveiled in May 2008. The new Business Class seats are fully reclinable, with a two meter long bed. The staggered arrangement of seats is a world premiere and offers a high degree of privacy and mobility within the aircraft cabin. The seating has been installed on all of Swiss' long-haul fleet.
In 2011, Swiss won the Business Traveller Award for ‘Best Airline for Europe’ for the fifth consecutive year, as well as ‘Best Airline for North & South America’ and ‘Best Business Class’.
From invention, design development, right through the final production of the Vantage Business Class seat, Patrick Lindon been in close collaboration with James Thompson
James Thompson (researcher)
James Thompson is a Northern Irish patent holder known for his innovative research and development in airline seating. Thompson holds over twenty patents, most of which have been brought into production...
from Thompson Aero Seating. A research and development, engineering and patent holding company
Patent holding company
Patent holding companies are companies set up to administer, consolidate and license patents or otherwise enforce patent rights, such as through litigation...
, Thompson Aero Seating is based in Portadown
Portadown
Portadown is a town in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The town sits on the River Bann in the north of the county, about 23 miles south-west of Belfast...
in County Armagh
County Armagh
-History:Ancient Armagh was the territory of the Ulaid before the fourth century AD. It was ruled by the Red Branch, whose capital was Emain Macha near Armagh. The site, and subsequently the city, were named after the goddess Macha...
, Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...
. They are best known for their space-saving airline seating design. In February 2011, Thompson’s opened their first seat manufacturing and assembly plant. The improved Thompson Vantage seats will be completed by the end of 2011.
Patrick Lindon Industrial Design is based in Walchwil, Switzerland, with offices in Zurich, Basel and London.
Publications
- Sweet Dreams – Moods and Interpretations in Aircraft Interiors. Karo Publishing, BaselBaselBasel or Basle In the national languages of Switzerland the city is also known as Bâle , Basilea and Basilea is Switzerland's third most populous city with about 166,000 inhabitants. Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany...
2011 - Time to Care. VictorinoxVictorinoxVictorinox is a knife manufacturer based in the town of Ibach, in the Canton of Schwyz, Switzerland. Since its acquisition of rival Wenger in 2005, it has, once more, become the sole supplier of multi-purpose knives to the Swiss army.-History:...
, Ibach-SchwyzSchwyzThe town of is the capital of the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland.The Federal Charter of 1291 or Bundesbrief, the charter that eventually led to the foundation of Switzerland, can be seen at the Bundesbriefmuseum.-History of the toponym:...
2011 - Aircraft Interiors: The Basics. Karo Publishing, BaselBaselBasel or Basle In the national languages of Switzerland the city is also known as Bâle , Basilea and Basilea is Switzerland's third most populous city with about 166,000 inhabitants. Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany...
2009 - The Making of a Business Class Seat. Karo Publishing, BaselBaselBasel or Basle In the national languages of Switzerland the city is also known as Bâle , Basilea and Basilea is Switzerland's third most populous city with about 166,000 inhabitants. Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany...
2007, ISBN 3-9521009-6-X - Aircraft Interiors. Daab Publishers, CologneCologneCologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
2005, ISBN 3-937718-10-9 - Young European Designers. Daab Publishers, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-937718-42-7
- Airworld. Vitra Design MuseumVitra Design MuseumThe Vitra Design Museum is an internationally renowned, privately owned museum for design in Weil am Rhein, Germany.Vitra CEO Rolf Fehlbaum founded the museum in 1989 as an independent private foundation...
, Weil am RheinWeil am RheinWeil am Rhein is a German town and commune which is a suburb of the city of Basel in Switzerland. It is situated on the east bank of the River Rhine, and close to the point at which the Swiss, French and German borders meet. It is the most southwesterly town in Germany.-Geography:Weil am Rhein is...
2004, ISBN 3-931936-48-1 - Swiss Furniture and Interiors in the 20th Century. Birkhäuser Publishers, BaselBaselBasel or Basle In the national languages of Switzerland the city is also known as Bâle , Basilea and Basilea is Switzerland's third most populous city with about 166,000 inhabitants. Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany...
2002, ISBN 3-7643-6483-1