Nordic Chair
NORDIC is a very light and durable chair, where traditional craft meets modern design.
Designed by duo Sami Kallio & Jakob Thau 2018.
NORDIC is made of solid ash from European certified forestry, with wooden seat or additional upholstered seat of Hairlok and wool.
The rear legs are carufully joint into the solid bent backrest, creating a unique craft detail as well as ensuring highest durability over time.
The clever design allows the NORDIC stack up to 6 chairs. The optional armrest also gives a function of hanging onto table tops.
NORDIC is offered in various color combinations with possibilities of bespoke colors for projects.
NORDIC is a family of chair, armchair and barchair.
Both Chair and Barchair is available with backrest and padded seat in vegetable tanned leather.
Dimensions
19.7"W x 18.1"D x 30.5"H, Seat Height 18.1"
Finishes
Solid European ash with wooden seat. Treated with hardwax oil, stain or lacquer. Additional soft seat, upholstered with natural wool felt and dressed with vegetable tanned leather. Backrest in vegetable tanned tooling leather.
Gemla
Passing through the beech forests and the small village of Diö by the river Helgeå, you will not only find Sweden’s oldest furniture manufacturer, Gemla Fabrikers, founded in 1861. You will also encounter a curiously rich history, characterized by inventiveness as well as stubbornness, said to be typical of the region of Småland.
In the 19th century, craftsmen from Bohemia arrived in Diö, bringing the know-how and experience from Thonet’s factories with them. Thereby, they were the first in Sweden to introduce the art of shaping wood, to make Vienna furniture. These craftsmen did indeed lay the foundation of this art, which has developed ever since here at Gemla.
Throughout the years we have been through factory fires and changes of ownership, as well as several alterations in direction and production. We have tamed the wood, shaping it into beautiful chairs, cinema armchairs and even hockey sticks and tennis rackets. We have quite simply developed and refined this technique, which we are now the only ones to master in the whole of Sweden. At Gemla we've had the tradition of working with the most skilled architects and designers for a long time.
The starting point was the famous World Exhibition in Stockholm 1930, when the great architect and functionalist Uno Åhrén was assigned to create the exhibition collection for Gemla. Since then many of the well known Swedish architects, such as Axel Kandell, Peter Celsing and Yngve Ekström, have contributed in creating the Gemla classic design history.
Still today many of our most appreciated models were designed already 1940-1950's.
Today we create new design in collaboration with our time's foremost designers, which with visionary idéas creating our classics of tomorrow. Jonas Bohlin, Mia Cullin, Mathieu Gustafsson and David Ericsson are only a few of the talented designers we are happy to work with today. We consider our design collaborations as long term relations, why we invest a lot of time learning to know each other before we start creating products.
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