Colour Wood Side Chair: Grain Beige

Colour Wood Side Chair: Pale Natural

Colour Wood Side Chair

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Colour Wood Side Chair: Grain Beige

Colour Wood Side Chair: Pale Natural

Colour Wood Side Chair

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Karimoku New Standard × Scholten & Baijings

Colour Wood Side Chair

Name: Colour Wood Side Chair
Brand: Karimoku New Standard • Scholten & Baijings
SKU: KNS-C3465ACA
Price: 1105.00 USD
Availability: InStock

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SKU: KNS-C3465ACA

$1,105

SKU: KNS-C3465ACN

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Spec Sheet

Description

With their Colour tables now a signature of Karimoku New Standard, designer duo Scholten & Baijings adapt the same basic concept for a companion side chair. Using sustainably sourced, low-diameter thinning timber brings a new challenge to the Japanese company's carpentry skills as small laths or strips of oak are painstakingly assembled to form the sculptural wooden shell. Apropos for both residential and contract use, the seat is upholstered with a Kvadrat fabric designed by Herzog & de Meuron and offers outstanding seating comfort.

Specifications

Size

31.1" h x 17.4" w x 20.7" d (79x44.1x52.6cm)
Seat height: 18.1" (46cm)

Material

Oak

Brand

Karimoku New Standard

It has always been about the wood. Shohei Kato opened a small woodworking shop in 1940 from a longstanding timber firm he acquired in Kariya. The first letters of the town name combined with “moku,” as in “mokuzai” ( “wood”) provided the brand name. Furniture followed within 2 decades, along with several brands under the Karimoku umbrella. Then in 2009, with his grandson Hiroshi Kato as vice president, the Karimoku New Standard branch launched to develop works with international designers in the modern design arena.

The star roster includes Swedish studio TAF, the Swiss team Big-Game and Dutch duo Scholten & Baijings. Among them is David Glaettli, who also serves as KNS brand creative director and dubbed its credo as “high-tech and high-touch.” The highly skilled Japanese carpentry and hand-applied painting that are a part of the parent company heritage are integral to KNS. It also looks forward, revitalizing native forests by targeting undervalued, sustainably grown hardwoods. Advanced technologies have elevated the low-diameter chestnut, maple and oak trees, once turned into wood chips for paper pulp, into something of lasting beauty. The aim, notes Hiroshi, is “furniture that will be used and loved for more than 100 years.”

Designer

Scholten & Baijings

“Stefan is really good at the big picture. I’m good at the details,” says Carole Baijings of her design partnership with Stefan Scholten, which grew out of the Dutch couple’s relationship. Though she is self-educated and Stefan studied at the Design Academy Eindhoven, “as our lives came together, working together was a natural progression, ” Carole says.

Now, more than 10 years later, Scholten & Baijings’ light-filled studio overlooks Amsterdam’s harbor and their work, with its unusual color choices and layered gradations of tone, is instantly recognizable. Collaborating with a who’s who of illustrious contemporary brands worldwide, from Hay in Denmark to Karimoku New Standard in Japan, their product range includes textiles, glass and furniture. “We work more like artists,” Carole says. “We start with materials and colors and then try to create a shape or a design. It’s a different approach than starting with a word or a concept or an idea.”