Artek Rope Chair
ROPE CHAIR
ROPE CHAIR
Designed By Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec
More like a silhouette than a solid block, the Rope Chair is a line drawing translated into three dimensions, a simple artistic gesture rendered in space.
Designed by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, the chair is a synthesis of contrasts: sophisticated engineering and creative expression, solid structure and flexible elements, stiff tubes and pliable rope.
DESIGNER
RONAN & ERWAN BOUROULLEC
Paris-based brothers Ronan (born 1971) and Erwan (born 1976) Bouroullec form one of the most exciting design teams working today and have collaborated with numerous leading companies in the design field.
Their oeuvre ranges from furniture and product design, textile wall systems and comprehensive collections to large-scale installations, architecture, and experimental projects.
Sketching, model-making, and photography are the three main tools used by the Bouroullec brothers in their often time-consuming design process. Both brothers are constantly drawing, filling the pages of sketchbooks.
In their notebooks, their fears, doubts, and sense of humour take shape in fantastical creatures, details from nature, and pages and pages filled with abstract forms.
Their award-winning work forms part of the permanent collections of museums such as the Musée National d’Art Moderne, the Centre Pompidou, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the MoMA in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Design Museum in London.
INFORMATION
DESIGNERS
- Ronan
- Erwan Bouroullec
BRAND
Artek
TYPOLOGY
Chair
LINE DRAWING
A line drawing translated into three dimensions
DYNAMIC SITTING
The flexible constructive element of the rope encourages dynamic sitting
PRODUCTION
Made in Germany
SEAT
Form-pressed Beech Plywood
UNEXPECTED COMFORT
Made for marine use, the rope is at the heart of the chair’s unexpected comfort.
COLLECTION
Rope
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2020
ROPE
Flax or Polyester
SEAT SURFACE
Ash Veneer
DIMENSIONS
- Total Height : 80 cm (31½")
- Seat Height : 66.5 cm (26¼” )
- Leg Height : 45.5 cm (18")
- Arm Height : 43.5 cm (17”)
- Backrest Height : 48.5 cm (19”)
DETAIL
Made for marine use, the rope is at the heart of the chair’s unexpected comfort; a weight-bearing part of the construction, it allows the chair to adapt to those who use it. 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.
VARIANTS
A variety of colours and upholstery can be combined.
-Seat : Ash Veneer, Black Lacquer
-Back And Armrests : Polyester Rope, Black -Seat : Ash Veneer, Light Grey Lacquer -Back And Armrests : Flax Rope, Natural
Coating
