Furniture group chooses leather from Elmo for unusual chair
Swedish furniture design company, Blå Station, has chosen Elmotique leather from leather manufacturer Elmo to cover a new chair for its Dent range.
The furniture brand describes Dent chairs as looking like they were “sculpted in clay”. It says the design may remind people of a discarded, crumpled up piece of paper, but insists it is the result of “intense work to tame a hard, flat surface into a double-curved seat shell, carefully and comfortably formed to the contours of the body”.
For this latest addition to the range, the Dent Lounge, the leather “envelops” the sitter, Blå Station has said.
Elmotique is a thin aniline leather with a batique-effect, produced by Elmo from Scandinavian cattle hides. This article displays all the features of the original hide, the tanning company has said, including insect-bites and scars from healed wounds, to add to the natural character of the leather.
