502 Chair One

Chair One is a pared back solid wood chair with an extreme visual levity. The chair reflects Manuel's approach to architecture: honest materiality, bold yet timeless, innovative yet connected to the past, and an interplay of volume and void.

Design  Manuel Aires Mateus
Manufacturer  De La Espada
Made in  Portugal
Materiality American White Oak / American Black Walnut / European Ash
Dimensions W 40cm x D 49cm x H 85cm (W 15 3/4" x D 19 1/3" x H 33 1/2")

Manuel Aires Mateus is an award-winning Lisbon-based architect whose projects explore the roles of memory and knowledge combined with the relationship between the physical and cultural worlds. His work seeks to reflect every scale of our lives and searches for the enduring state of shape and materiality.

With an emphasis on function and the sensory response, his collection for De La Espada reflects a universal heritage that is fixed without time or place. Utilising astonishingly proportioned planks of Douglas Fir timber, the furniture is designed to be passed from generation to generation, earning the value of time and marks of memories past.