Collection by Diana Budds
Fair Chairs
We continue our coverage of the 2012 Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair with a selection of especially haute seats. The allure of a well-designed chair is tough to resist and there were plenty of lookers on the show floor. Most featured the attributes we all come to expect from Scandinavian design: blonde wood, hardy textiles, and crisp lines, but a few bucked the mold, featuring looser silhouettes and knitted slipcovers intended to act as furniture garments.
One Nordic unveiled this collaborative project with Form Us With Love. The Bento chair is a high-design answer to Ikea, as the designers explained. They wanted to create a chair that would be simple to assemble, needing no instructions or special tools. The bentwood pieces would be easy to put together since their shape dictates their parts (ie. there's no confusing a seat back for a leg).