Easy Chair

“Sitting on the floor in Japanese houses is a very special experience. No chair, more like being outside, with that refined simplicity – Zen. The working title of the chair I was longing for was Zazen – seated meditation. A perfect sitting angle on a beautiful wooden frame, linen webbing that supports a cushion in horsehair and a back cushion stuffed with seabird feathers. Ascetic in look but comfortable in feel. You’re not sitting in a chair, you’re sitting in the room, as if free in the air. Put two next to each other and they look gorgeous. Lots of Norrgavel’s furniture has generic names but what is this? More than a chair but Fåtölj, the Swedish word for an upholstered armchair sounded far too stuffed, and indeed stuffy... so we turned to English and called it Easy Chair.”

Nirvan Richter, designer
In production since 2016