Contemporary chair WICK

oaksolid woodash

Design is only radical when it breaks with the norm for what a furniture typology should look like. Wick Chair is not, in the words of Design House Stockholm founder Anders Färdig, a ‘plastic tub.’ “I have a great weakness for avant-garde designs that form part of some type of tradition,” he explains while recalling the meeting at which designers Karl Malmvall and Jesper Ståhl presented their idea of what the Wick Chair might look like. “Karl and Jesper placed an old basket in front of me, explaining that this was what they had in mind,” Anders Färdig remarks. “I was pretty much all at sea!” 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 watercolour 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 well be seen as an aspect of the designers’ elegant solution to a difficult practical problem. Material & Dimensions DESIGNER - Jesper Ståhl & Karl Malmwall COLLECTION TITLE - Wick Collection DIMENSIONS (MM) - 570x505x750 mm DIMENSIONS (INCHES) - 22"x20"x30" PRODUCT WEIGHT (KG) - 4.1 kg – 7.8 kg PRODUCT WEIGHT (LBS) - 10 Lbs – 17.2 Lbs SKU - Wick chair MATERIAL - Seat: oak/ash veneer. Legs: solid wood/lacquered or chromed steel tubing/metal swivel base. OTHER INFO - Optional seat cushion is available.