Suzenne by Chiara Andreatti

Suzenne by Chiara Andreatti for Gebrüder Thonet Vienna

A piece brimming with contemporary spirit, the SUZENNE lounge chair by Chiara Andreatti offers a graceful take on some of Gebrüder Thonet Vienna’s trademark features: bent beech-wood and woven cane. The chair features a sleek structure in bent beech-wood, with the combination of straight and curved lines securing the backrest in woven cane, with wood frame. The cushions on the seat and backrest are soft and cosy, springing forth like a flower from the stem.

About Chiara Andreatti

Chiara Andreatti was born not far from Venice and she moved to Milan to study in the
European Institute of Design and then to attend a Master’s program at Domus Academy.
She has worked to several design studios like Raffaella Mangiarotti , Renato Montagne and studio Lissoni Associati where he has been working for more than ten years. She design for companies like Atipico, Glas Italia, Non Sans Raison, CCtapis and Mingardo, actually she work like art director for Karpeta and Texturae. In 2018 she was called to represent the 10th anniversary of Fendi’s edition at Design Miami. Her work has been published on major domestic and international magazines (Domus, Interior, Surface, Rum, Living, Wallpaper, Elle Decor, Living, Icon, Ddn etc.)

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BM 65 Armchair by Bruno Mathsson

BM 65 Armchair by Bruno Mathsson

For many years, Bruno Mathsson regarded wood as the natural material to work with. However, in developing the Superellipse table and the span leg in steel he discovered a new medium. In the Danish Magazine ”Dansk Kunsthaandværk” (No5, 1964) he wrote that his work with the span leg had become ”one of the most exciting adventures I could dream of”. Bruno Mathsson saw the possibility of working with steel to create designs in a different direction. During this period, Mathsson had completed another design utilising steel tubes, under the working title of BM 65. He signed and dated the finished drawing on 22 December 1965. He was also keen to see this chair in production but his enthusiasm for the design could not overcome the technical difficulties it presented given the production methods available to him. Consequently, chair BM 65 was never developed beyond the drawing board. Now technology is equal to the task of producing Mathsson´s design. Chair BM 65 is in production. It unites timeless elegance and a modern form that is reminiscent of the Superellipse

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Pipe Armchair by Jasper Morrison

Pipe Armchair by Jasper Morrison

Designed for Magis in 2008

The Pipe Chair has an aluminium structure and an option of an aluminium seat and back with holes for outdoor use or high-pressure resinated plywood for indoors or light outdoor use. There’s an armchair and a normal chair version. The tooling for the chair is remarkable, with a variety of state-of-the-art bending machines controlling the tubes’ 3-D profiles. It’s beautifully made and probably one of the strongest chairs ever built as I chose a large-diameter tube and the structure (especially the armchair) is very rigid. It stacks like a French café chair on the X under the seat, allowing four or five in a stack before it gets too high.

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Bac Armchair by Jasper Morrison


Bac Armchair by Jasper Morrison

Designed in 2009 for Cappellini. Produced in a variety of colours and finishes.

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Thinking Man’s Chair by Jasper Morrison for Cappellini

Thinking Man’s Chair by Jasper Morrison for Cappellini

The color is Oxide red or RAL 3009.


Jasper had a solo exhibition in Grand Hornu, Belgium, named Thingness, in June 2015 where I took this photo. (Talking about backlog).

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