Nym
Pedrali - 2017
The Merry Chairs of Windsor.
he Nym series is a contemporary reinterpretation of traditional English Windsor chairs. Approaching the project of this historical construction method, we had an heritage to preserve, but we had to look at it aware of today's technological potential. The resulting interpretation has preserved the ideal structure, but, by means of numerical control processes, it has modified the section of the structural elements, switching from the circle to the ellipse, to increase the contact surface with the user and therefore improve the comfort.
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Wheelwrights.
Windsor chairs were born, in medieval times, from a technological contamination: the corporation of the Wheelwrights, or the manufacturers of wheels for wagons, began to produce the spindles for the support of the backrests in the same way with which they made the spokes of the wooden wheels. A primordial standardization, albeit on an artisan scale, had led to the use of tapered profiles, with circular section.
Ellipse and Ellipsis.
Elliptical profiles give to visual perception a feeling of levity. The backrest develops in space like a fluttering ribbon, an icon of dynamism par excellence: more dancing than lightning, more enveloping than elusive. The ellipse section changes the shadows to each twist, distinguishes an interior from an exterior, being a figure halfway between the homogeneity of the circle and the slenderness of the line.
The ellipse section is accompanied by the design ellipsis: that is, the rhetorical figure that consists in having reduced the geometric description of the functions to the essential, omitting decorative or foregone elements. The interpretative effort of an object so permeated with tradition was to subtract. Also subtract mass from the volume of the spindles, normally cylindrical, to compress them towards the surface that embraces the seated person.
Nym seems to have an invisible touch, yeah!
The arched backrest in curved ash wood describe the surface that wraps the person in synthetic lines and are inserted into the shaped and welcoming seats. While sitting, you cannot help but let the hands slide along the smooth surfaces to feel the soft tactile pleasure of solid ash wood.
A family tale:
Nym is available with various types of bases: the 4 legs in solid ash wood, with the dynamic divergence from the medium center of gravity, the slide in metal rod, which brings the seat to the extreme of its visual lightness, and the central rotating base in solid ash wood, which increases the comfort of the seat and brings it back into position when you get up. Stools and upholstered seat variants complete this large family of wooden seats.
WANDERLUST
A chair of solid convictions.
Being a reinterpretation of a historical typology of medieval origin, it is immediately associated with the typical place of tradition which is that of the banquet, the fireplace lit, the house. Neverthless the solidity of this construction method, established by centuries of manufacture, combined with the updating of the design according to an organic functionalism logic, make Nym, in its many variations, a seat suitable for any type of environment.
Caffè Fernanda, Nym armchairs that converse at the bistrot of the Pinacoteca di Brera – Milan