Have a Seat
Have a Seat Chair by Ari Korolainen is a winner of the 2019 Iron A' Design Award in Furniture Design.
Have a Seat is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations.
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Have a seat is a real ecologically friendly chair. The back of the chair and the seat is made of recycled cardboard. The surface material is recycled leather, which is made of waste pieces collected from shoe and bag factories and pressed to leather sheets. It is possible to make different colour combinations. The frame of the chair is made of wood. One chair requires 5 meters of wooden frame, 5 kg recycled cardboard and 0,5 kg of recycled leather. The chair is like a piece of art, where every wooden part and measurement are results of careful thinking.
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Have a Seat by Ari Korolainen
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Furniture Design Award Winner in 2019.
Iron Winner
Have a Seat Chair
Have a Seat is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Have a Seat is expected to be a highly-regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Have a Seat is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Winner Designer
Ari Korolainen
Ari Korolainen is a Finnish architect and designer who was one of the first designers who used recycled materials in his designs. 1985 he started to make cases and stationery products of recycled cardboard. Today he also uses recycled leather commonly in his designs. Good design and environmentally friendly materials can be seen in his Private Case stationery collection. Now, 30 years later, Private Case is a large collection of stationery products and Korolainen is known as Mr Private Case. Furniture design is his another ambition.
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Adessin Oy
Adessin is a design company that makes high quality furniture. The products combine something old, something new, something extraordinary and surprising. The design of the furniture is plain, clean and simple, where all extra has been taken off. Furniture can be like a piece of art.
Winner Brand
Private Case
Private Case makes high quality stationery products. Private Case products are known for their simple yet smart design and the use of recycled materials. All products are designed and made in Lahti, Finland.
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