Jolly High-Back Chair
Jan Armgardt’s design satisfies the natural desire for the trusted high back with a suggestion of wings.
Jolly is a piece of furniture that is redolent of solidity and security, refuge and protection. The hint of a shell shape combined with the coordinated radii and sloping lines strengthen this impression, and create a coherent whole. At the same time, the small dimensions and the cantilevered version are at one with modern lifestyles, and result in a certain lightness. The swivel base extends the range of potential uses. Jan Armgardt has successfully married tradition and modernity in a piece that is a classic, yet thoroughly contemporary. As always, special attention has been paid to careful stitching and craftsmanship. For this model, Wittmann was awarded the Red Dot Award 2006 for product design.
Wittmann
Wittmann creates treasured pieces: They are the product of an uncompromising approach to craft and design – two elements that have been uniquely cultivated by Wittmann right from the very start. Wittmann is adept at setting trends, creating milestones in the history of furniture.
Unmatched craftsmanship, as well as meticulous selection and working of fine materials, provide the basis for executing new ideas and forms. To bring them to life, Wittmann regularly partners with the greatest names of their time. And it is not uncommon for long-term cooperations to be the outcome: collaborators including Johannes Spalt, Jean Nouvel, Matteo Thun and Paolo Piva set the direction that Jaime Hayon, Sebastian Herkner and Luca Nichetto have now seamlessly picked up on, taking it into a new era.