Created in 2013, the Beetle chair instantly became a classic. Almost a decade later, GamFratesi revisits its creation with the Beetle Wood Chair, a version that expands the relevance of the original design by adapting it to even more interior styles without compromising the comfort that made it famous.
Stone Gam and Enrico Fratesi on the choice of this new material: “The concept of the Beetle chair lends itself perfectly to this wooden rendering, which underlines the natural inspiration that presided over its design. Wood is a fantastic material and the shape of the Beetle makes it possible to exploit the best of its characteristics. It is graceful, perfectly curved, and the wood magnifies this organic shape. »
The shell consists of two separate pieces, the backrest and the seat, connected by internal spring steel supports invisible from the outside. Each part is 3D molded using a press brake. This molding technique helps create the distinct curvature of the Beetle, while maximizing its comfort and flexibility. Working the wood in this way accentuates the vertical grain and color of the wood, giving the chair an upscale look.
Dimensions L56 x P58 x H87 cm. Seat height 45,5 cm. Seat depth 42 cm.
Materials oak or walnut veneer, metal legs
Walnut + Flair beige 134 (price group B) + black chromed legs
Oak + Mumble vert 40 (price group B) + black chromed legs
Walnut + Soft army leather (price group C) + Antique brass legs
Oak + Soft gray leather (price group C) + black chromed legs
Walnut + Belsuede 132 (price group C) + Antique brass legs
Oak + Karakorum 001 (price group D) + black chromed legs
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GamFratesi
Stine Gam was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1975. She is educated architect with a master in furniture design. Enrico Fratesi was born in Pesaro, Italy in 1978. He has studied architecture and graduated with a master in industrial design. Gam and Fratesi gained experience as architects in several architecture studio in Japan and Scandinavia before establishing their own design studio in 2006.
The studio is based in Copenhagen, though Gam and Fratesi are continuously traveling between Italy and Denmark for development and research of new projects. GamFratesi’s design takes its creative drive from a fusion of tradition and renewal and in an experimental approach to their chosen materials and techniques. With their dual traditional background, Stine Gam and Enrico Fratesi draw on the classic Danish furniture and craft tradition as well as the classic Italian intellectual and conceptual approach. Understanding a tradition and addressing it actively in the workshop makes it possible to expand on it. From this cross-cultural substrate they create furniture that respectfully reflects tradition while also featuring unique embedded stories, symbols and associations, often expressed in a minimalist idiom.
GamFratesi aim to create furniture that illustrates the process and the techniques that created it, and which reflect a persistent exploration of the diverse border zone between harmony and disharmony. GamFratesi have received significant awards including Elle Decoration International design award (EDIDA) as International Young Designer of the Year 2013, Guest of Honor Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair 2014, selection Compasso D’oro / ADI , Nomination Best Designer Icon design award 2014, Vico Magistretti Award by De Padova, the Chicago Atheneum Museum of Architecture’s Good Design Award, Best Danish Designer 2012 by Bolig magasinet, ‘Walk the Plank award 2009’ and Best Danish Designer 2009 by RUM.
