The chair has a seat made from a single plank of Ash, carved into a comfortable bottom shape. Like the Sunray chair designed at the same time, the seat’s spindles all run into the lower rails of the chair, rather than the seat block, as they would in a traditional windsor chair. The back bow is formed by steaming long sections of green ash (not fully dried timber) before bending around a former.

The upholstery strips are jute webbing, which is a standard upholstery material, but normally hidden under springs, cushions and fabrics. In this chair the webbing is left exposed, woven in a three way pattern and joined to the lower rails and the upper bow.

This chair was designed during a weekend factory visit to Sitting Firm, a manufacturer of traditional windsor chairs near coventry, as an extension of the Bodging Milano project.

Please contact me directly if you are interested in buying one of these chairs.

These seats were developed as a response to a brief generated through the group WC Franck.

photography by Ivan Coleman