Throughout Stockholm Design Week 2024, Vaarnii presents a brand new Ronan Bouroullec chair – the ‘Maasto’, created by the French designer as ‘an ode to pine’.
Launched in 2022, Vaarnii is a Finnish design model celebrating the pure great thing about pine via impressed collaborations with modern designers that vary from Kwangho Lee to Studiomama, Mac Collins and Philippe Malouin amongst others. Via its assortment, Vaarnii reimagines the modern Finnish design vernacular, with a mode that’s equally brutalist and complicated.
Ronan Bouroullec chair for Vaarnii: an ode to pine
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Bouroullec’s ‘Maasto’ eating chair for Vaarnii combines a easy design gesture with cautious engineering that elevates the fabric’s pure expressiveness. The designer (whose work and inspirations are explored in a brand new Phaidon e book, Ronan Bouroullec: Day after Day) embraced Vaarnii’s brutalist design manifesto with an angular chair that merges conventional design codes with a recent aesthetic language.
The deep seat is flanked by shorter armrests, whereas the gently slanted again and thick legs contribute to the structural integrity of the design. The aspect and again panels enable the pine’s grain to emerge, its richness making a dramatic distinction with the chair’s easy building.
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Whereas the seat and backrest are manufactured from strong pine, pine plywood is employed for the chair’s sides providing enhanced power to the chair. That is the primary time Vaarnii makes use of a composite wooden and an necessary second within the firm’s experimentation with furnishings building.
‘Embracing plywood as a brand new addition to the Vaarnii materials palette led to the shocking discovery that high-quality Finnish plywood didn’t exist, regardless of pine being essentially the most populous Finnish timber,’ reads a observe from the corporate introducing the design. ‘Via the manufacturing of this necessary design, Vaarnii took the choice to provide our personal Finnish pine plywood to the best requirements doable, changing into our personal materials provider and reviving a misplaced manufacturing talent within the course of.’
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Provides Bouroullec: ‘Working with Vaarnii is like working in a bakery: the baker makes use of flour to provide one thing easy and good; right here we use pine to provide one thing good, sturdy, the grace of simplicity.’
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