Harrogate, UK, 10 November, 2026 – NaughtOne announces that its moveable lounge chair by Lucy Kurrein is now available with a reimagined design. It keeps its playful silhoutte, while gaining a redesigned base, a new castor system, and carbon-reduced foam that cuts its embodied carbon by 55%.*
“Pippin embodies NaughtOne’s ethos of progress and this latest evolution reflects our commitment to improving the sustainability of our products, both existing and future,” said Bethany Willan, NaughtOne Head of Sustainability and Communities. “It shows how thoughtful design changes can build on what already works to create an even more sustainable product.”
Following its preview at Clerkenwell Design Week and Fulton Market Design Days, NaughtOne has made the remastered Pippin its standard version. A natural progression of one of the brand's most celebrated chairs, it’s also been made 4.5 kg (9.9 lbs) lighter (5 kg/11lbs on the glide version) through a redesigned base centered around a new castor system. This system also makes it easier to reposition the chair and keep it steady when someone sits, with castors that snap out for quick servicing. Lower-carbon foams incorporate bio-based materials, replacing conventional polyurethane dependent on fossil fuel-based raw materials.
Paul Salem, NaughtOne's Director of Design & Engineering, said, "Pippin quickly became one of our most successful products, and by most measures we could have left it alone. But we saw opportunities to enhance it and further improve the castors. When we couldn't find any we liked, we designed our own—which meant we could rethink the whole base. Add Bio-Pur foam®, and you have a chair that performs better and asks less of the planet."
The castors retract when the chair is occupied, allowing it to settle onto its outer pads for stability, then glide freely when unoccupied for easy repositioning. The remastered Pippin remains available as a glide version without castors.
The update also strengthens Pippin’s circular design. The original chair was designed to come apart like a 3D puzzle for repair and recycling. Its castor wheels now snap in and out with a screwdriver, so they can be replaced without disassembling the base.
Sustainability has been at the heart of NaughtOne’s work since the company was founded, and the brand continues to innovate through new materials and circular processes. The updated design represents the latest step in these sustainability strides, which also advances MillerKnoll’s broader commitment to sourcing better materials as the company works towards using 100% bio-based or recycled materials by 2050.
Pippin is available to order globally through MillerKnoll dealers. Learn more about Pippin here.
*Reduction in embodied carbon compared with the previous Pippin (year of origin: 2023), covering LCA modules A1–A3 and including biogenic carbon (28% excluding biogenic carbon). Based on bio-mass balance polyurethane foam and a totally redesigned base; one component remains conventional polyurethane. Modelled in GaBi using the UK bill of materials.
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NaughtOne designs and manufactures furniture for commercial spaces, guided by the belief that designs should be simple, beautiful and useful. They offer choice as standard, empowering specifiers to express their creativity and tailor the colour, material and finish of their products to suit the client, setting and use.
Though based in the UK, NaughtOne has grown significantly over the past two decades and now employs nearly 100 people across the UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia and the USA. They are proud to be part of the MillerKnoll collective of brands. Learn more at naughtone.com.