After a pleasant lifetime of after-dinner experimentation with a glass of marc de Bourgogne in one hand and a Hoyo de Monterrey in the other, this has become Terence Conran’s personal favour...
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After a pleasant lifetime of after-dinner experimentation with a glass of marc de Bourgogne in one hand and a Hoyo de Monterrey in the other, this has become Terence Conran’s personal favourite chair. Kukkapuro is one of Finland’s leading designers, although – while pleasingly ergonomic – this chair was not so much the product of research as the result of playing in the snow with his daughter, Isa. The snow chairs they made were so inspiring, he went to his workshop atelier to create something similar out of ‘real materials’. While elegantly austere, the chair is superlatively comfortable. A sticker beneath the seat will say: ‘Avarte. Made in Finland, designed by Yrjö Kukkapuro’. Designed in 1964.
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