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Lower Case Chair £325
Woodland chair £35
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Faces and finishes

There is a choice of finish for the Woodland chair - a natural timber look or a stained colour. The rabbit or squirrel face can be drawn with soft graphite and sealed, or painted. Or you can have an untreated version and paint it yourself!

Press comment on the Lower Case chair

"If you are a hard-working typographer who sometimes feels that you eat, sleep and drink the letters of the alphabet, now you can go the whole hog and sit on them too. This innovative chair…."
Graphics International

"Is it just a gimmick or a 21st century design icon? You decide"
Design Week

"Witty"
Wayne Hemingway, Channel Four

Notes on the Lower Case chair

Self-sufficient, self-referencing - you don’t argue with this chair, it tells you straight. But these letters are not only literal they are structural. The way the letters connect make it work: take away one letter and it doesn’t stand - or read. As in all chairs, a rigid structure is the key; the typographic design is informed by structural design. The letters abut each other and join with bolts - even the dot of the i plays a crucial part. And ergonomics gives the h its dynamic form and a comfortable sloping chair back. Two dimensional typography becomes three dimensional form. Just the thing for your studio or living room corner.

Homages

The Domestic dramas pay humble tribute to great designers – the chair made out of coat hangers is a salute to Charles Rene Mackintosh’s ladder back chairs and Backpedal is a homage to Achille Castiglioni. Spic and span is a reference to all the hard working Windsor chairs found in kitchens everywhere. The explorations in plywood pay homage to Gerrit Rietveld.

What is it about plywood?

Birch ply continues to be a ubiquitous material even though first used in the 1930s. Its engineered precision has a cool, soft-grained appearance and a distinctive striped edge. Being flat makes it simple to work but tricky to turn into a satisfactory chair. It has presented a constantly intriguing geometric challenge.