Falke Svatun designs thin-backed Synnes Chair for Menu
Norwegian designer Falke Svatun has created a dining chair with a thin backrest that curves around its sitter like a shell (+ slideshow).
Designed for Danish brand Menu, the Synnes Chair is made from form-pressed plywood. A six-millimetre-thin section of it is used for the backrest, which is nearly flat but curves sharply inwards at the sides of the chair.
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According to Svatun, this construction "offers comfort as well as sturdiness". The backrest is pinned to the seat with dowels.
Svatun took inspiration from both spindle-back and laminate chairs for the Synnes. The spindle-back influence is visible in the chair's more sturdy base, also made from form-pressed plywood.
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Svatun described the design as "a modern take on a traditional Scandinavian dining chair". Available in natural oak and stained ash, it can come upholstered with fabric or leather.
Oslo-based Svatun creates furniture, lighting and accessories with a Minimalistic approach. His previous work includes a range of stoneware vessels with cut-out bases, enabling them to balance on the edge of shelves or windowsills.
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Menu is set to launch its full collection of furniture and accessories at this September's edition of Maison&Objet.
It includes a Bauhaus-inspired coat hanger by Stockholm-based design studio Afteroom and a glass carafe with a brass lid by Norm Architects.
Photography is by Lasse Fløde.