Antique brass base

semi matt brass base

black chrome base

chrome 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

black base

fabric Velluto di Cotone green 787 + Luce 53 piping + semi matt brass base

fabric Velluto di Cotone blue 420 + semi matt brass base

fabric À Contre Jour rosa tramonto 005 + semi matt brass base

fabric Colline 118 + black leather piping + semi matt brass base

fabric Pfauenauge M7829A05 + Luce 17 piping + semi matt brass base

fabric Silkbird Jaquard 002 + Luce 17 piping + semi matt brass base

fabric Korb MC741E00 + Luce 13 piping + black chrome base

fabric Remix grey 123 + brandy leather piping + black chromed base

Ready-made Beetle lounge

ready-made Beetle lounge

customize your Beetle lounge

The Beetle lounge chair can be made on order with a wide range of fabrics and leather. If you need fabric samples, we will gladly send them freely to you (against deposit). Do not hesitate to contact us to talk directly of your project. Lead-time approx. 6-8 weeks.

Legs black, chrome, black chrome, semi matt brass, Antique brass

customize your Beetle

GamFratesi is a partnership between Stine Gam (1975-), danish, and Enrico Fratesi (1978-), italian. Several of the studio's designs play with the contours established by designers such as Hans J. Wegner and Arne Jacobsen, using new proportions, materials and constructions to challenge the look of contemporary furniture archetypes. The Beetle Lounge chair was born of this research on the legacy of the great masters of Scandinavian design.

The seat and back are made of laminated moulded veneer 10mm thick. This fully upholstered chair is available in a wide range of fabrics or leathers. The seat and Beetle chair back are made of plywood 10 mm thick. They are covered with foam and fabric or leather. The base is available in black powder coated steel, chrome, black chrome, semi matt brass or in Antique brass. The Beetle chair is non-stackable.

Dimensions H82 x D63 x W72cm. Seat height 36cm.

Legs black, chrome, black chrome, semi matt brass, Antique brass