Bean bags had their moment – somewhere between college dorm floors and ironic loft lounges – but their reign is over. The Z LOUNGER makes that pretty clear. Airmaan’s latest Kickstarter success doesn’t mimic the low-slung blob aesthetic or the soft, formless sprawl. Instead, it crams a fully ergonomic lounge chair into what amounts to a rolled-up yoga mat, then unfolds into a silhouette closer to Le Corbusier’s Chaise Longue LC4 than inflatable pool floats.
The Z LOUNGER’s mission is simple – make inflatable furniture a more serious contender in the portable outdoor furniture category. Instead of those overtly industrial fancy mechanical chairs that look like a cobweb of metal linkages, the Z LOUNGER’s design is simple – a flat slab that rolls up into a duffle for easy carry, and unfurls and inflates into a lounger that looks just as classy on your patio as it does on a yacht or a fancy poolside.
Designer: Johannes Faure-Brac
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What makes it genuinely compelling is how well it handles structure. Inflatable seating usually feels like a compromise: in that they either it sags under your weight or feels unstable and bouncy, never quite delivering true ergonomic support. The Z LOUNGER flips that script. An S-shaped contour guides your body into a neutral, reclined position that feels engineered. The internal air chambers are mapped to the spine’s natural curve, and an add-on neck pillow gives you extra cervical support so you feel like you’re on a comfortable lounge chair.
The reclining base is adjustable, shifting between upright lounging and a full 180° flat mode. The way this is done is by simply adjusting the support at the back, moving it downwards for a more upright chair or upwards to recline. Take it off, and you have a chair that sits flat, with just the arch around the knees for better posture and blood flow.
Weighing 4.6kg and folding down to a 30″ x 7″ cylinder, it’s roughly the dimensions of a foam roller when stowed, yet robust enough to handle rough terrain, UV exposure, rain, claws, and kids, even a 12-ton bulldozer. The materials borrow from military-grade composites, including a tough vinyl-coated polyester outer structure with a high-strength inner mesh inspired by aerospace textiles, and while “overbuilt” is often thrown around too lightly, this one wears it as a badge. You could accidentally drive your car over it and it would be just fine, or sit on it with keys in your pocket and it’ll shrug it off like nothing ever happened – although don’t go stabbing it with an EDC knife to prove a point!
Inflation takes 20 to 40 seconds with a pump (Z LOUNGER provides a manual pump, although electric ones work just fine), and it’s waterproof too, so it doubles as a floating lounger for the pool when summer actually kicks in! The surface is easy to clean too, and resists mildew and fungus inherently. If you happen to accidentally drop your drink on it, a simple wipe takes care of the job.
Customization isn’t an afterthought either. Airmaan intentionally designed the Z LOUNGER to accommodate aftermarket mats – cork, leather, thick foam, whatever fits the 185cm × 65cm spec. You can buy their Z Cushion for a perfect match, but the openness to third-party gear is a smart move. It gives the product a kind of modularity that doesn’t force an ecosystem.
Ultimately, the Z LOUNGER works for all scenarios, whether humble outdoor seating on a porch or patio, seating in your backyard while you fire movies on your projector, pool furniture, or even fancy setups like a yacht or resort. It’s durable enough to withstand any kind of use, sun, wind, sand, and even a bunch of people crowding on the same chair for that perfect holiday selfie.
The aesthetic avoids the clunky visuals that plague most outdoor seating. The result feels like a hybrid: part design object, part survival tool. And each unit is tested for 10 days before leaving the workshop – an obsessive move that reinforces their handmade, small-batch production model. At €199 (roughly $226), early backers are getting in at nearly half off the projected retail price. This includes the lounger itself, a recliner support with a strap, a shoulder strap to carry your folded lounger around, a manual pump, 4 sand pegs, 4 carabiners for attachements, and heavy duty loops for tethering the lounger on your terrace or on the boat… and just in case your doberman chews your lounger or the landscaper accidentally drops his chainsaw on it, the Z LOUNGER also ships with its own repair kit!
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