Kite Highback Chair: Narrow
Kite Highback Chair: Narrow
Kite Highback Chair: Narrow
Kite Highback Chair: Narrow
Kite Highback Chair: Narrow
Kite Highback Chair: Narrow
Kite Highback Chair: Narrow
Kite Highback Chair: Narrow
Kite Highback Chair: Narrow
Kite Highback Chair: Narrow
Kite Highback Chair: Narrow
Kite Highback Chair: Narrow
Kite Highback Chair: Narrow
Kite Highback Chair: Narrow
Kite Highback Chair: Narrow
Kite Highback Chair: Narrow
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Stellar Works × Nendo

Kite Highback Chair: Narrow

$2,975 – $7,050

$2,975

SKU: SW-KT-S120-N-FAB-C

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Average lead time: 10-12 weeks

$3,850

SKU: SW-KT-S120-N-FAB-B

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Average lead time: 10-12 weeks

$4,100

SKU: SW-KT-S120-N-FAB-A

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Average lead time: 10-12 weeks

$4,600

SKU: SW-KT-S120-N-LEA-C

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Average lead time: 10-12 weeks

$5,850

SKU: SW-KT-S120-N-LEA-B

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Average lead time: 10-12 weeks

$7,050

SKU: SW-KT-S120-N-LEA-A

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Average lead time: 10-12 weeks


Description

To his resolutely individual Kite series, Nendo designer-architect Oki Sato adds a comfortable highback chair equipped with a minimally narrow seat. Suited to more confined office corridors and hospitality vestibules, the raised backrest version offers an oasis of privacy and a calming separation from any adjoining activity. Produced by Shanghai-based Stellar Works, the seating combines carefully shaped, individual upholstered components clad in a universally appealing specked grey textile, extending Kite's options to meet varied needs and interior dimensions.

Specifications

Size

  • 49.1" h x 32" w x 22" d (124.7x81.2x56cm)
  • Seat height: 21.1" (53.5cm)

Material

Steel, powder-coated matt

Details

  • Fabric A: Divina Melange, Steelcut Trio, Suunta
  • Fabric B: L493 Sanfor, Main Line Flax, Melange Nap, Messenger, Naveli, Remix, Sport, Sunhill
  • Fabric C: Era, Jade, Manhattan, Medley, Pattern, Revive, Wool Roll, Canvas
  • Leather A: New Castle
  • Leather B: Crystal, Milano
  • Leather C: Bellagio
  • COM and COL available on request
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Brand

Stellar Works

Craftsmanship is at the heart of Stellar Works since a couple of design enthusiasts from France and Japan launched the line in 2013. Operations benefit from Japanese management, while the craftsmanship draws on premium European furniture practices and technical proficiency that comes with the brand’s own state-of-the-art factory in Shanghai, China.

Because Stellar Works controls end to end, it takes great pride in abiding to Japan’s Four-Star standards—the most stringent in the industry worldwide—offering transparency regarding the sourcing of every material, be it leather, metal or fabric, along with ensuring that all woods come from FSC-certified forests.

The line’s urbane sense of materials, colorways and forms is a reflection of a global roster that includes New York designer-architect David Rockwell, Toronto’s Yabu Pushelberg, Copenhagen’s Space Copenhagen and Monaco-based Humbert & Poyet—along with an exacting Asian lens by appointing Chinese duo Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu—widely known as Neri&Hu—as creative directors for the brand.

Designer

Nendo

A clue to architect and designer Oki Sato’s playful persona lies in the fact that he named his studio Nendo, after the Japanese word for children’s modelling clay. In fact, the Tokyo-based creative says, ““Good design is when I can explain my ideas to my grandmother or to a young child.” Without preconceived notions of what is “good” design, Oki is free to follow his often-whimsical, meandering path to conceive objects that amaze, delight and still stay true to their function. Originally from Toronto, and he took his M.A. in Architecture at Waseda University in Tokyo and established Nendo there in 2002. The studio now includes a management staff and around 30 design-architecture professionals, not all of the Japanese.

That makes sense, as Oki regards the market as a global arena. “We are not too concerned with whether our clients are Japanese or Western,” he says. “After many years, we have developed ‘the Nendo way’ that doesn’t refer to any specific visual style or signature look, but rather the way we approach challenges and find solutions.” It is said that the mind behind Nendo is the first person since Philippe Starck’s heyday in the 1980s and 1990s whose design has such a characteristic signature. For the studio’s work, Nendo has been awarded with Dezeen, Wallpaper and Red Dot design awards among many more throughout its brief lifetime.

 

 


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