Developed for indoor spaces through Activa Leisure
An accent chair developed within the category-development program that brought an outdoor furniture business into indoor furniture for a national warehouse-club retailer. The design carried an outdoor language indoors — an architectural frame softened by woven material wrapping each profile, translated from a patio chair developed for the same retailer into wood and wicker for an interior read. It sat against the wood-frame-with-rattan accent chairs specialty retailers like Crate & Barrel and Palecek were carrying through 2019–2020, where the weave typically functioned as an insert rather than wrapping the structure.
A solid wood frame holds assertive leg tapers and a gently reclined back, giving the chair both grounding and lift. Hand-woven wicker wraps the arms, seat structure, and back panel, softening the architectural geometry and merging structure and surface into a continuous read. A tailored cushion sits over the wicker seat, adding the comfort the segment expected without breaking the tonal unity of frame and weave. The result is composed and quiet — a chair where the weave does structural work rather than decorative.
The Calabria Accent Chair holds architecture and softness in one gesture — woven texture shaped to the frame rather than placed against it.