Material: fresh white beech / Comission for ARCO / sales@jorislaarman.com

Wood is a material that is very much alive. Nevertheless carpenters for centuries have tried to keep it as dead as possible. A waste of energy in my opinion. When Dutch furniture manufacturer Arco asked me to design a chair for the next 100 years of Arco I wanted to create something living, something logical and beautifull using the aspects of the material. Fresh white beech wood is notoriuos for its response to its environment like temperature or moist. These chairs in fact make use of these aspects in a positive way. They transform with age and live like their owners. In this way each chair gets it's own character.