Wick Chair - Wood Legs

Wick Chair - Wood Legs
Wick Chair - Wood Legs
Wick Chair - Wood Legs
Wick Chair - Wood Legs
Wick Chair - Wood Legs
Wick Chair - Wood Legs
Wick Chair - Wood Legs
Wick Chair - Wood Legs
Wick Chair - Wood Legs
Wick Chair - Wood Legs
Wick Chair - Wood Legs
Wick Chair - Wood Legs

Wick Chair - Wood Legs

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Wick chair is a modular shell chair inspired by traditional Swedish wood-chip baskets. An ergonomic allround chair with several different options to customise it for home, offices, conference centers and hotels. Contact Design House Stockholm sales division for full list of options for contract customers.

Material
Seat: Form pressed ash/oak veneer.
Legs: Solid wood.

Dimensions
22"W x 20"D x 31"H Seat 17.32"H

Product Care
Wipe seat and legs with damp cloth.

Jesper Stahl + Karl Malmvall

The duo responsible for the Wick Chair are designers with roots in the province of Småland where so much of the skills and expertise of the Swedish furniture industry have developed Both Karl Malmvall and Jesper Ståhl come from families that have manufactured furniture, with parents and grandparents who started successful companies that they have developed and refined In Karl’s case there was a tradition of fine cabinetmaking while Jesper’s ancestors redirected a metal manufactory to become a successful pioneer in the field of public-sector furnishing Their lengthy experience of designing furniture and other products both for the home and for the public sector has given the duo a detailed understanding of the criteria for a modular shell chair

The intention was never to produce a basket but the item that the designers presented explains the origins of the Wick Chair and the values that it conveys. The wood-chip basket is the sort that we recognized from Swedish artist Carl Larsson’s romantic watercolor of his daughter Brita which has become emblematic of what Christmas is supposed to look like in Sweden. At the time that it was painted it was a modern interpretation of tradition. That the Wick Chair is plaited in similar fashion to the wood-chip basket signals the design tradition from which it springs, but the plaiting can equally be seen as an aspect of the designers’ elegant solution to a difficult practical problem.
One positive effect of the interweaving is that at the point where the pieces of wood lock each other they can be glued on both sides. True, Jesper Ståhl and Karl Malmvall had simplified the shape to its absolute essence so that the Wick Chair only has one interwoven element on each side, but the shape has many intentional functional aspects. It is the trials and the insights that follow that have made working with laminated wood so rewarding.

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