Griante
Pedrali - 2025
Together we stand.
Griante is a chair in which the supporting and supported elements mechanically collaborate to ensure the stability of the whole. The two textile shells look as if they were suspended from the two lateral legs bridges. Actually, the seat and backrest are made of aluminum frames covered with a woven belt. When these components are assembled to the wooden leg bridges, the whole gives an impression of great composure and solidity.
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Tape playing.
The tape we designed is divided into five slightly soft tubular sectors, able to adapt with minimal section variations in order to cover the entire surface. The polypropylene yarn tape is mono-material and recyclable. It has excellent resistance to atmospheric agents, in addition to a slightly disheveled hand that refracts the light making the surface opaque and pleasant to the touch.
Extreme clarity.
Griante is designed so that the shells are woven separately and then assembled to the wooden components. This constructive logic of the object, for which the components are distinct on both a practical and perceptive level, makes its disassembly process intelligible. The manual, artisan factor is preserved and inserted into a sustainable industrial process which avoids movements of bulky frames.
The woodwork is sober, minimal: turned cylindrical legs and an elliptical section armrest, soft despite its austerity. Its section narrows near the junction with the rear leg. The natural colour of the wood and the lively irregularity of the texture humanise the formal rigor. The type of wood we chose is iroko in the outdoor version, ash in the indoor version.
WANDERLUST
Square cut.
The rigor of Griante, combined with the repetition of the square shape that informs the geometry of the object, from the weave to the proportions of the seat, derives from a syncretic aesthetic language in which we have brought together the Shaker tradition, the Wiener Werkstaette and the most idealistic Danish designers. Visual material that comes to us from these traditions, as well as the attention they place on formal research as an anthropological fact, as an exaltation of vernacular culture, has taken on an original form in Griante’s development, dictated by the most innovative production methods.
It is still not entirely clear why cricketers of all times aspire to make a square cut brandishing an armrest of the Griante lounge chair.