Explore a Tonal Scheme Built From One Pale Family

Working tone on tone is harder than working with contrast, because without a dark anchor a room can drift into blandness. This chair solves it with texture: the large-structured chenille throws its own shadows, and the natural finish on the ash legs keeps the timber pale but leaves the grain fully legible. Put the two together and you get a chair made almost entirely of light values that still has plenty to look at. It belongs in a room with white plaster, linen and pale flooring, where a dark leg would break the calm.

The cover is a two-tone recycled polyester chenille, and the recycled content is not incidental: it comes from a supplier certified to the Global Recycled Standard, which verifies recycled input and tracks it through production rather than taking a mill's word for it. The finished cloth also holds OEKO-TEX STANDARD 100, a test for harmful substances applied to the textile as it will actually be sold. Between them, the two schemes cover where the fibre came from and what has been done to it.

Discover the Engineering Under the Upholstery

Upholstery only looks as good as the block underneath it. Here that block is high-density polyurethane injection foam at 60kg/m³, and its job is to hold a defined shape so the chenille stretched over it stays smooth instead of gathering into creases at the front edge. Low-density foam collapses in the middle within a couple of years and the cover follows it; dense injection foam keeps its geometry, which is why a chair like this still looks taut after long service. The medium firmness is calibrated for eating rather than lounging.

Both the foam and the fabric are flame retardant treated to the highest fire-resistance standards, a specification aimed at professional projects that quietly benefits any household. The legs are solid ash wood carrying FSC 100% chain of custody certification from a responsible forest management model. Ash takes a clear finish beautifully, showing its pronounced growth rings without the yellowing that some pale timbers develop, and it stays stiff in the slim sections a chair leg demands.