David Irwin’s TOR chair for Dare Studio

There are certain characteristics in design which help us to place when and where a chair, table or lamp was designed. As our knowledge and experience of design develops the global influences filter in to design like a big melting pot of style.

When David Irwin first presented the designs for TOR, a new chair for British design house Dare Studio, I was struck by its sophisticated lines, the understated glamour and clean silhouette he designed in to this stacking chair. Dare Studio are well known for producing products with hand-crafted heritage and for using contemporary manufacturing methods.

This chair, the first design by David Irwin for Dare Studio, would not be out of place in cultured surrounds of Claridges Suite or the Orient Express. Yet it has the modernist charm and graceful curves of contemporary Danish design that transcends it to an avant-garde building in the City.

As with all David Irwin products, there is a practical element to the design to allow it to move beyond a single application. With an inset seat, you can stack the chair making it ideal for contract use in restaurants or conference seating, and home use where space may be at a premium. Where most practical stacking chairs may suit that purpose, TOR’s simple clean lines put it alongside the likes of Gio Ponti’s Superleggera chair, yet as practical as Robin Day’s Polyprop chair.

Now for the science bit; a refined solid wood frame wraps around a formed seat. Slender in form, the TOR chair is ideal for modern residential and commercial spaces. The solid timber frame is available in colour lacquered beech or in oiled American black walnut / white oak. The chair is available with and without arms. An optional upholstered seat, with beautiful fabrics or your own material.

Designer: David Irwin
Manufacturer: Dare Studio
Year: 2015
Price: £TBC

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