pick arm chair WN Cedar seat 1852 *Not for sale

*As this is an exhibition item, there may be color changes due to aging and minor scratches.
*Please note that we also sell these products in stores, so please forgive us if they are sold out.
*There may be slight individual differences in shape and size.
*Although we use thoroughly dried wood, due to it being natural wood, slight movement (such as small misalignments or warping at the joints) may occur.
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On rare occasions, something unexpectedly good comes out of nowhere.

Shops had been telling us for some time that they had received many requests for compact and lightweight chairs. We had made many elaborate chairs for competitions, weighing in at 2000g or 1600g, and we had the know-how to make them lighter while maintaining comfort and strength.

I tried to make use of this and design it as a more everyday item.

If the legs were made thinner, they would require more complex structures and processing to maintain strength, which would increase costs, so the legs are made normal thickness. In this case, three legs would be used to reduce the number of parts, but the choice is between "two legs in the front and one in the back" or "one in the front and two in the back." The former makes it difficult to achieve balance from the hips to the back, which is the most important part, and requires the bottom of the legs to flare outward significantly, so it is often used in designs such as low, large armchairs. The latter does not require the legs to flare outward and can be stored more compactly.

By the way, three-legged chairs are not very common in Japan, but in Europe, where tile and stone floors are often used, three-legged chairs are highly valued because they are always stable no matter how uneven the floor.

I drew a quick sketch and started making it straight away. Once the frame was assembled, I temporarily assembled the small backrest and seat and sat down on it. As I had hoped, it was just as comfortable as a regular chair.

Thinking that, I somehow moved my elbows towards my back and rested them on the backrest.

"Hmm? This? It fits surprisingly well." I roughly carve out the angular part, imagining the line of my elbows, and try sitting down again.

No good, the fit was off. The first one was a failure. Before the image had even faded, I quickly made another one. This time I was more careful, sitting down and checking it over and over again as I carved it out. Then a beautiful, slightly twisted line began to appear from the back to the elbow. This was it! As I had expected, if you make something that fits the human body, it will naturally become beautiful.

In this way, we created a compact yet comfortable semi-armchair.

SIZE W550 D470 H720 SH420

MATERIAL: Walnut & cedar seat

Designed by Shigeki Matsuoka