KAARI collection
design Ronan & Erwan
Bouroullec, 2015
The Kaari collection by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec marks the first collaboration between the French designers and Artek. In creating a simple yet elegant bent steel band to provide support for a series of furniture, the Paris-based brothers arrived at a practical and adaptable construction principle.
In Finnish, Kaari means “arch,” and while the vertical load of table tops and shelves is held by a piece of wood, the bent steel band provides diagonal support similar to an arch. With antecedents in Alvar Aalto’s work in bent wood, the metal band has a light, fluid outline. It could well have been drawn with a single stroke of a pen.
Frame solid wood and flat rolled steel (black powder coated)
Shelves and tabletop HPL (glossy, easy maintenance, sturdy) or linoleum (matt finish, organic material made from vegetable oils, warm to the touch)
Edges ABS
