Italian designer Marco Stefanini has created the playful and colorful Nasse Arm Chair and Axe Genoa.

Nasse Arm Chair by Marco Stefanini, image courtesy of outdoorzgallery

Nasse Arm Chair
The high backed, clear, acrylic armchair flexes as you lean into it ensuring comfort to a chair with a clear artistic style. The seat and footstool of hand woven marine cord artfully wraps around a frame of stainless steel. The footstool weaving combines three complimentary colors which sets off the almost invisible structure of the armchair. The weaving is available in your choice of color combinations.

+ Material: clear acrylic, stainless steel, marine cord
+ Dimensions: 50cm x 50cm seat back 100cm, seat height 38cm
+ Colors: blue, green, orange, yellow, red, gray

Nasse Arm Chair by Marco Stefanini, image courtesy of outdoorzgallery

Nasse Arm Chair by Marco Stefanini, image courtesy of outdoorzgallery

Axe Genoa
The geometric simplicity of the stainless steel Axe Genoa chair is the perfect background for the colors and patterns of the marine cord. Wrapped around the back, seat and front legs in various color combinations the chair is an eye catching addition around a table or on its own.

+ Material: stainless steel, marine cord
+ Dimensions:  height 75cm, width 30cm, depth 40cm, back 75cm
+ Colors: blue, green, orange, yellow, red, gray

+ About  Marco Giovanni Stefanini

Marco Giovanni Stefanini was born in Berne in 1960.  Attracted by archaic forms of expression and prehistoric art, he studied in Rome and at the Fine Arts Academy in Bologna.  As a painter and sculptor Marco has exhibited extensively throughout Italy. His love of form naturally took him into the design world  and the day to day objects which could be created with natural materials such as wood, glass, stone and iron.  Marco’s involvement in the art and design community includes founder of the Interno Gallery for young artists, the design company Dum-Dum, partner and artistic director of the Art Cad Escando literary circle in Parma and most recently the Dilmos Gallery in Milan.

Marcos has also participated in design collaborations with companies such as Flo, the innovative lighting company.  The great versatility in the artistic life of Marco culminated in what he considers his ultimate masterpiece, the restoration of an aqueduct from 1915 which became the artist’s home and studio. The balance between raw material and artistic creation, and a sort of ethereal minimalism came together in what the French TV station TF1 describes as one of the worlds most exceptional homes, a thought echoed by several design magazines including Italy’s Interni.

In short, Marco’s body of work, his consistency and process of expression move him beyond trends and markets.  Marco’s pieces are made by the artist and are one of a kind.

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Dutch designer Erik Griffoen has designed the Kazula Rocker chair, the chair is made of 4mm stainless steel, and shaped by the clean geometric lines, it is finished in white color, special colors also available upon request.

My work has to be exciting from every angle, have character, beauty and quality. And most of all: it has to be comfortable.

Erik Griffioen

Kazula Rocker
The clean geometric lines of the Kaluza rocker capture our interest from every possible angle. This is a key component of Erik's work. The chair is both a focal point in itself and a frame for the view which may be seen through the lines of the chair. Laser cut from 4mm steel plate Kaluza suspends the sitter and rocks in response to the sitters movement. A brilliant combination of comfort and design.

+ Material: 4mm stainless steel
+ Dimensions: L 120cm  w 48cm  h 108cm
+ Colors: white, special colors are available by request

This chair is available for sale in outdoorzgallery.

+ About Erik Griffioen

Erik Griffioen didn't set out to be a designer but at some point in the creative process design found him.
Many of the chairs of his first collection are interconnected. From the first chair came a second, a third and a fourth. And each generation would produce one or two new designs. He allowed himself only to change a design to create a new one, by rearranging points and lines according to a certain number of rules. This method of working has made Griffioens work into a recognizable visual idiom.

Says Griffioen “My work has to be exciting from every angle, have character, beauty and quality. And most of all: it has to be comfortable.”

After a few years he changed his way of working and broke with his own rules. He started designing more intuitively and more from his imagination but without losing his visual signature. This opened another creative door and resulted in a great number of new designs.

Erik Griffioen graduated fine arts in 2001 in Enschede Holland. After a few years of making prototypes in his free time he made his debut in Belgium at Interieur 08 in November 2008. He then went to the Salone del Mobile in Milan 2009. He has since then shown work at the Stockholm Furniture Fair, the Homes and Interiors Scotland Exhibition in Glasgow, The Affordable Art Fair in Amsterdam and most recently he was in England for the London Design Festival where he showed work at 100 % design.

Kazula Rocker by Erik Griffoen, image courtesy of outdoorzgallery

Kazula Rocker by Erik Griffoen, image courtesy of outdoorzgallery