The Kimono Armchair is a piece of furniture that explores the formal essence of the traditional Japanese clothing.

The fluency of the kimono's textile, the horizontal panel that wraps around the torso and the covering of the human body are all aspects considered when aiming to reach a specific grade of mimesis—halfway between immediate evidence and excessive distance.

Different production techniques gather to result in a coherent, elegant and harmonized lounge seat that aims to pay tribute to the kimono.

Design Team

Design: Pablo Carballal

Photographs: Elena Almagro

Typology: Armchair

Dimensions:700x920x780mm

Materials & Manufacturers: Solid Oak legs sculptured in a five axis CNC (Gurdó); Curved plywood boards finished in oak (ITDC); Polyurethane natural matt varnish (Losadart); Steel tubes and plates curved with numeric control (Tarema); Steel separators made by CNC lathe (Metalúrgica Alcalá); Screws (Matriu); Chromium (Cromados Martín); Neoprene (Industrias Lork); Cow leather ref. Asphalt (Vitra); Upholsterer (Luis Florido)

Design: Pablo Carballal

Color Photographs: Elena Almagro

Video: A video about the leg manufacturing

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