No. 1 Cantilever chair
One line. Ten bends. One weld.
A chair bent from a single steel tube, with saddle leather hung on the frame. Made to order in Łódź.
Scroll to bend the tube
It starts as a drawing.
Every Filo piece begins as one pencil line on tracing paper. If it can’t be drawn without lifting the pencil, we don’t make it.
Then the line becomes steel.
One 25 mm tube of cold-drawn steel, 4.3 metres long, bent ten times on a hand-pulled bender. There are no joints, so there is nothing to wobble loose.
Every bend has a number.
Bend 01 starts at the floor, bend 10 closes the loop. Each radius is set so the chrome never wrinkles. The two ends meet once, under the rear runner, where nobody looks.
No back legs.
No. 1 stands on two runners, 535 mm long, and the seat hangs 450 mm above the floor. The steel gives a few millimetres when you sit down and springs back when you stand. It feels like sitting on a branch.
Leather hangs.Nothing is stuffed.
Two pieces of 4 mm vegetable-tanned saddle leather, wrapped round the frame and stitched by hand underneath. It darkens where you sit. That is the point.
Bent cold, by hand,in Łódź.
- 01
The tube is cut to length and marked at ten points with a scribe.
- 02
Each bend is pulled cold on a hand bender, in order, from 01 to 10.
- 03
The two ends meet under the rear runner. One weld, then polished until the seam disappears.
- 04
The leather is cut, wrapped round the frame and saddle-stitched underneath.
- Tube
- Ø 25 × 2 mm steel, chromed
- Length
- 4.3 m, 10 bends, 1 weld
- Leather
- 4 mm vegetable-tanned
- Size
- 450 × 535 × 860 mm
- Weight
- 6.8 kg
Make roomfor one line.
No. 1 Cantilever chair
One tube, ten bends, one weld. From €1,280, made to order in Łódź.
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