Furniture

Aura

Year
2024–2025
Materials
Birch, Cotton
Three-quarter view of the pale birch armchair with its light cotton sling seat, photographed on a seamless grey studio backdrop.

Aura reflects everything I stand for as a designer and holds all the values I cherish. This armchair showcases my passion for sustainable, human-centric design and the impact we, as designers of the future, can have on the environment and on people’s lives.

Aura’s design was based on intuition and feeling: gathering the materials first, exploring how they could be finished, and testing the different options for the details and for how joints and materials come together. The aim was to create something long-lasting, an object that is bonded to its user, respected, and carried through time. Something aesthetically pleasing, yet ergonomic. An object with a soul. An armchair people do not tend to throw away, but rather cherish for a lifetime.

Detail of the backrest: the cotton sling folds over a turned birch rail and drops into the seat.
A person in beige reclines in the armchair in side profile, the sling carrying their full weight.
Overhead flat-lay of turned birch dowels with drilled joints, small tenons, and folded cotton on a workbench.
Process · Components before assembly
A birch plank passing through a bandsaw in the workshop.
Process · Cutting the plank
Birch rails with freshly drilled joint holes on the bed of a drilling machine.
Process · Drilling the holes
An industrial sewing machine stitching a seam in the heavy cotton sling.
Process · Sewing the fabric seating

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Aura II

The birch armchair with its linen sling standing on a frost-covered wooden jetty, still water behind it.