Arisso Lounge Chair

Three materials. One chair. The room's most considered corner.
There are lounge chairs that settle into a room and there are lounge chairs that give it structure — that bring the considered architectural confidence of a piece designed around the relationship between materials rather than the dominance of any single one. The Arisso was designed for that second kind of presence. A generous seat and backrest in warm sand linen sit within a frame where black metal rails and upholstered fabric panels alternate across each side in a slatted rhythm — the black metal giving precision, the fabric giving warmth, the alternation giving the chair the particular quality of a piece that is as interesting from the side as it is from the front. Acacia wood caps the armrests at the top and grounds the feet at the base — the same warm timber at both the highest and lowest points of the piece, tying the entire composition together in a material that is entirely honest about what it is.
The slatted side panels are the Arisso's signature — the architectural detail that makes this lounge chair unlike any other, the considered rhythm of black metal and linen fabric that references the screen traditions of Indian architecture while being entirely contemporary in its resolution. A low black metal stretcher at the base completes the frame with the honest joinery of a piece that has nothing to hide and everything to show. A lounge chair designed in India, for the home that understands the most considered pieces are always the ones where three materials find a balance that none of them could have achieved alone.