Kata Chair × Arper

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MATERIAL HONESTY

For Arper’s first solid wood chair, we wanted to celebrate the essence of wood. Designed for dining and meeting spaces, Kata conveys a sense of warmth, naturalness, and understated elegance, creating environments that feel both inviting and refined.

Completing Arper’s Wood Collection, designed for warmer, more tactile work and living environments, the chair pairs seamlessly with the Ghia table, while also adding a warm, inviting touch to technical tables in restaurants, meeting rooms, and collaborative spaces.

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FROM LOUNGE TO CHAIR

Adapting Kata lounge to a chair format required some rethinking.
Part of Kata's original initiative was to use modern technology in a way that reflects a traditional heritage in a contemporary, warm way, while also reducing the ecological footprint via lightness and reduction of material.

The Kata chair continues this via the creation of a minimally thin plywood that is visually and structurally enhanced through the application of a texture, which has been used by classic Thonet bentwood chair seats in the early days of the last century.