Hjo Chair

The Hjo Chair is made from walnut throughout, with a back rest carved from a single thick blank into a shallow curve that meets your shoulder blades rather than your spine. The seat is glued up from two book-matched boards and hollowed by hand, then sanded until the edges roll away under the thigh. Four legs join the seat with loose tenons and are left square at the top, rounding as they fall.

Granit & Ek build it in small runs, and the walnut is oiled rather than lacquered so it darkens evenly over the first few years. It is a chair for a dining table that also serves as a workplace, where people sit for hours and the back needs to give a little without feeling loose.

Hjo Chair comes in Walnut.