Contemporary armchair WAIKIKI

synthetic leatheroakbrown

The compact and comfortable Waikiki armchair is made of turned beech wood and completed with brass brackets, elastic straps, and a padded upholstery. The different components fit together easily thanks to a construction based on the principle of tensegrity, which balances tensile and compressive forces, using no screw nor glue. The chair is inspired by the “Safari chair”, a folding chair used by British officers in the late 19th century. Although the chair’s use does not imply frequent assembling and dissembling, its design allows easy separation of the different materials making up each element. This feature, also expressed in the overall visual language, promotes the circularity of materials and reduces the ecological footprint while offering the possibility of replacing and exchanging components whenever needed.