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Feb 13

Färg & Blanche designs quilted Emily chair for Gärsnäs

Posted in: Färg & Blanche, Gärsnäs, Product news, Stockholm 2014

Stockholm 2014: Swedish-French design duo Färg & Blanche has created a small padded chair for Swedish furniture brand Gärsnäs.

Emily chair by Farg and Blanche for Garsnas

Färg & Blanche designed the Emily chair for dining or conference tables as a version of their larger Emma armchair, also produced by Gärsnäs.

Emily chair by Farg and Blanche for Garsnas

“Emily is our Emma easy chair’s little sister,” said the designers. “The family likeness can be seen in the needlework – they are both upholstered but differently patterned.”

Emily chair by Farg and Blanche for Garsnas

The chair back curves around the seat to form the arms. Padding is quilted into sections, creating a simple pattern on both sides of the back support. It comes upholstered in fabric or leather and solid ash legs poke out from short sleeves of material below the seat.

Emily chair by Farg and Blanche for Garsnas — Emily chair with larger Emma chairs

Gärsnäs exhibited the design at last week’s Stockholm Furniture Fair, where Färg & Blanche also debuted a furniture collection created by sewing pieces of plywood together.

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Feb 02

Österlen by Inga Sempé for Gärsnäs

Posted in: Gärsnäs, Stockholm 2011

Osterlen by Inga Sempe for Garsnas

French designer Inga Sempé will present this ash chair and table for Swedish brand Gärsnäs at the Stockholm Furniture Fair in Sweden next week.

Osterlen by Inga Sempe for Garsnas

Called Österlen, the chair has slices cut out of the bent back and round legs to make a comfortable backrest, create neat joints with the square plywood seat and sharpen the line of the legs.

Osterlen by Inga Sempe for Garsnas

Corresponding cuts in the table legs soften its corners.

Osterlen by Inga Sempe for Garsnas

Stockholm Furniture Fair takes place 8-12 February 2011.

Osterlen by Inga Sempe for Garsnas

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Osterlen by Inga Sempe for Garsnas

Photographs are by Lennart Durehed.

Osterlen by Inga Sempe for Garsnas

The text below is from Inga Sempé:

The name of the chair and table is Österlen, to support the fact that this collection is built in this historically strong part of south Sweden called Österlen and designed by an even more southern person. Working with Gärsnäs was a great opportunity for me to design wooden furniture, – a thing that is not possible to do in France where no wood factory would ask contemporary designer to work for them. I knew that it would be nicely built with the high knowledge of this historical company.

Osterlen by Inga Sempe for Garsnas

I wanted to mix the typical bent technics and high skills for fine assemblies of Gärsnäs. My aim was to create a simple, light and quiet – but not minimalist- chair and table, that would be nice in contemporay homes or in older ones, good for domestic purposes as well as for contracts.

Osterlen by Inga Sempe for Garsnas

The main characteristic of the chair is the U cuts made into the legs and bent parts. These cuts flatten the curves of the round legs so the light hits the pieces in a different way, which gives a soft rythm to the chair with shadowed or enlightened reliefs.

Osterlen by Inga Sempe for Garsnas

The bent back’s cuts are made to bring confort by increasing the angle with the seat. In the back support, those cuts allow it to be assembled with the the bent back part.

The front legs are cut and flattened to join the seat in a nice diagonal assembly. On their lower parts, the cuts sharpen the shape of the legs and give lightness to the Österlen chair and table and a kind of an elan.

Chair, h83 × w43 × d49, seat : h49 cm. Natural ash, veneer seat.
Table, h73 × 70 × 70. Natural ash.

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