Furniture & Lighting

EOQ - Chair 4a

Chair 4A began as a commission for a restaurant interior in Hong Kong and grew into one of the defining pieces of our EOQ collection. The starting point was an observation of the MacBook industries in Shenzhen, where we saw engineering skills and aluminium research of extraordinary depth being applied entirely to consumer electronics. We wanted to redirect that knowledge into furniture. The uprights are made from sheet aluminium rolled into tubes to form the legs and backrest, opening out at each corner to meet the seat. The result is a classic chair silhouette reinterpreted through genuinely modern production, made using both extruded and stamped recycled aluminium, hand finished before surface treatment. It comes in six finishes including anodised, powder coated and polished aluminium. Plastic chairs of similar price points are unpleasant to the touch and age badly. For the same cost we could use recycled aluminium and produce something that creates skilled jobs, lasts a lifetime and is far more sustainable. Chair 4A was first exhibited at Vienna Design Week before its wider release in Japan and Europe, and was later shown dismantled across an entire wall as part of our AL(L) Projects with Aluminium exhibition at Grand Hornu in Belgium.