+ front upholstery
from 290 €
plastic Bat chair
from 309 €
base
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.
Their work have been shown in numerous exhibitions, Triennale di Milano, solo exhibitions at the Museum of Art and Design Copenhagen, Art Museum Trapholt Kolding, Palazzo Litta, Shanghai as well as collective exhibitions Mindcraft in Milano, Royal Danish Embassy in Tokyo, and Design Miami/Basel.
GamFratesi
Antique brass
semi matt brass
black chrome
chrome
black
The Bat dining chair can customized by adding a front upholstery.
shell
new beige
sweet pink
smoke blue
pure white
dark pink
dark green
black
Shell polypropylène – front upholstery as an option
Legs metal
Dimension H85 x W61 x D56cm Seat Height 43cm.
The Bat dining chair with polypropylene shell is a variation of the chair of the same name, but fully upholstered with fabric or leather. The series was designed by GamFratesi in 2018 / 2019. With its wrap-around shell, the dining chair looks like the wingspan of a bat – hence its name – and ensures great sitting comfort. Its design is both refined and functional: those are two important concepts of the Scandinavian tradition. Its synthetic shell allows it to be more economically affordable. The Bat plastic chair is available in the same 7 colours as the Beetle chair.
