100 THIEVES AND MODERNICA PUT POKEMON ON CHROME CHAIRS

$725 buys one fiberglass shell chair from the new Pokemon, 100 Thieves and Modernica collection, and that number is most of the story. Modernica hand builds each chair at its Los Angeles factory, then fits it with a chrome plated Eiffel base and a Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle or Pikachu print rendered like blue and white china. The four chair collection goes on sale Friday, September 25 at 10am Pacific on 100Thieves.com, with quantities limited to the United States and Japan. Four characters, one price, one factory, one launch window; nothing about this drop is built to move fast or cheap.

$725 Buys More Chrome Than Fabric

A standard Case Study Arm Shell Eiffel chair starts at $495 on Modernica's own site. The Pokemon version adds $230 to that base price for the character print and the collaboration tag, a premium of roughly forty six percent over the plain chair. Every character costs $725, whether Bulbasaur or Pikachu, and 100 Thieves has not announced a discount for buying more than one. The org built its name shipping headsets, jerseys and a Call of Duty roster; a seven hundred dollar decision on a piece of furniture asks a different question of a buyer than a hoodie does, and the price tag treats the collection accordingly instead of pretending it is merch.

Modernica Molds Every Shell By Hand in Los Angeles

The chair itself is Modernica's Case Study Fiberglass Shell, a chassis the company has produced in Los Angeles since it revived the form from the midcentury shift toward molded fiberglass seating. Workers hand lay each shell, cure it, then sand and finish it before the character print goes on, a process Modernica runs on every chair it sells, licensed or not. The Pokemon artwork is rendered in blue and white, styled to read like glazed china instead of a printed logo, closer to a collectible plate than a gaming peripheral, an instinct that also put a Poke Ball shaped hotel room inside a Hokkaido resort earlier this month. Every chair sits on the polished chrome Eiffel wire base already in Modernica's regular catalog. Nothing about the construction is exclusive to this run; the collaboration lives entirely in the print and the packaging, not in a new mold or a new base. That is the tradeoff of buying into a licensed run on an existing chassis: the design language changes, the joinery and the shell tooling do not.

Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle and Pikachu Each Get Their Own Base

The collection covers four characters: Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle, the three starters from the original Kanto region, plus Pikachu, the franchise's most recognized face and not a starter at all. Each gets its own chair instead of splitting one print across a shared set, so a buyer picks one character and commits to it instead of choosing from a matched pair. 100 Thieves framed the release around putting Pokemon through what the brand calls iconic furniture and enduring design. The four chair spread mirrors how Modernica already sells the Eiffel base day to day, one character or colorway at a time, never as a bundled series with its own SKU.

BAPE's 2022 Eiffel Chair Cost More For One Character

Modernica has put a licensed character on this exact base before. Bape's Eiffel chair sold for $899 in 2022, a single edition tied to the Japanese streetwear label instead of a lineup. The Pokemon and 100 Thieves version undercuts that price by $174 despite arriving as a family of four designs instead of one, and it marks the first time Modernica has split a character collaboration across an entire starter lineup rather than a single mascot. Four years and two known collaborations in, the Eiffel base has become Modernica's preferred canvas for streetwear and gaming crossovers, not the swivel, rocker or X base options sitting in the rest of its catalog. Bape's chair carried one ape head print across a single edition; Pokemon and 100 Thieves split one chassis four ways and still landed under Bape's number, a pricing gap worth noting before anyone sits in either one.

The Drop Skips Most Of The World

100 Thieves and Modernica are selling the collection only in the United States and Japan, the two markets Pokemon leans on hardest for its highest end collectible drops. The publisher priced a Pokemon Center plush series at 7700 yen for that Japanese audience earlier this year. A fan in Germany, Brazil or Australia has no listed way to buy one of these chairs when the sale opens. Four chairs, two countries, one Friday morning window. $725 gets a shell that costs $174 less than Modernica's last character collaboration, built by the same hands in that Los Angeles factory, and 100 Thieves has not said whether the run gets a restock once Friday's window closes.