DRAGON stackable wooden chair

• Design by Troels Grum-Schwensen
• Prototype and 0-series executed by Egtved Pianofabrik
• Design: 1995 -1996
• Publicitzed: 1996 (SE96)

DRAGON series of tables

• Design by Troels Grum-Schwensen
• Prototype and 0-series executed by Egtved Pianofabrik
• Design: 1997
• Publicitzed: 1999 (SE99)
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The idea behind the DRAGON chair is a special back-geometry where the veneer is bend in two directions. The back is mounted in a slit in the wooden frame and fixed with a special bolt without the use of glue, which opens the opportunity to give the back a surface-treatment different from the frame.

In the shaping of the chair, I have aimed for a tensed, almost animal-like expression, where the stackability does not become a dominating visual factor.

The curved shape of the transversal aprons gives “muscles” and material, where needed; in the joints.

This emphasizes both the distinction of the – also curved – seating-planes and the load-bearing structure.

At a later point, I supplemented the chair with a small series of tables.