Helsinki, Finland
The French designer brothers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec have designed a new chair that features the delicate hand-drawn line: most of the furniture they have designed for Finnish furniture company is like three-dimensionally rendered drawings.
In the Rope Chair, the rope is used for the first time as a structural and weight-bearing element in furniture.
The chair is a surprising silhouette that meets sophisticated constructions in a synthesis of art and technology.
The Rope Chair is more of a silhouette than a solid block, a line drawing translated into space.
The chair is a synthesis of contrasts: sophisticated engineering and creative expression, solid structure and flexible elements, stiff tubes and pliable rope.
Made for marine use, the rope is a weight-bearing part of the construction and it allows the chair to adapt to those who use it, offering unexpected comfort.
A synthesis of contrasts, the Rope Chair combines sophisticated engineering and creative expression, a solid structure and flexible elements, stiff tubes and pliable rope.
Where other chairs dictate a specific way of sitting, the Rope Chair invites creativity in posture, encouraging dynamic movement and changes in position.
When the sitter rises, the chair’s frame bears the traces of the body it last supported, the imprint of a user who co-defines its shape.
Project: Rope Chair
Designers: Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec
Manufacturer: Artek oy ab
