The context of the chair focuses on the discussions that exist about the furniture in the second residence, a vacation home. Expressing the different situations experienced in vacation landscapes unified in the same piece, as if the object had materialized from all these stories, and you could take it with your own hands to your home.
“We wanted a chair whose stability, lightness and ergonomics would respond to our engineering exercises, in which we did not wrinkle in the face of the difficulties of reproducing complex curvatures and promoting organicity in large projects. That it was sustainable, pure, with the best of design that allows us to think about the future but with the nobility of wood as a material and the accumulated experience of the past.”
Ben van Berkel
The idea that it is only a unique and attractive piece does not escape the corresponding functionality and efficiency before, during and after its manufacture. The sustainability of the wood is made up of a mechanized and curved solid oak wood frame during an experimental process of pressing and vaporizing. An oak casing with variable thickness of 16mm and 22mm thickness made up of twenty sheets worked to optimize bending and alternate arrangements to improve resistance.
The final finishes are distributed between the piece made of polypropylene for stacking that adjusts to the curvature emptying in the back section of the upholstered backrest, which varies depending on the foam padding of the seat or the simplicity of the direct wood that adapts. to the human form. Finally, the finish is given with pigmented enamel and a final coat of transparent dye with a silky touch. A sequence of subtle procedures, taking care of the stylized format of the chair in form and utility.
