Nils Holger Moormann launches special-edition Pressed Chairs

The iconic Pressed Chair, designed by Harry Thaler for Nils Holger Moormann, has completed ten years since its initial launch. In marking what will be the 10-year anniversary of the chair, Moormann is launching 10 unconventional custom-made models of the chair, each demonstrating its versatility and is flexibility. These unconventional models are special edition chairs, of which only 100 pieces will be available.

Founded by Nils Holger Moormann in the year 1984, the eponymous German-based furniture company initially came up with the intent of providing a launch pad for young designers.

The German-based design studio is well-known for its creative team of designers who aim to produce furniture that is ergonomic, easy to assemble and simple to use. The firm places sustainability as its top priority, which they achieve by using primitive materials, while ensuring a strict manufacturing within a radius of 40 km from the company headquarters, amongst other such measures.

The Pressed Chair, originally designed by Harry Thaler and launched in 2011, was built out of a single sheet of aluminium, 2.5 mm. The glass bead blasting of pure aluminium makes the surface of the chair appear raw, matte and velvety. The Pressed Chair is both durable and timeless, appearing as fresh and versatile as it did a decade ago. It is difficult to guess what kind of production the chair must have undergone in order for it to appear as seamless as it does. As simple as the chair appears, it uses no rivets, screws, hooks or eyelets. Its simple appearance, outstanding stability and iconic appearance can be owed to its unique construction.

Harry Thaler is known to combine traditional craftsmanship with innovative shapes and materials to produce designs that are experimental on the one hand and simple, timeless and versatile on the other. Amongst the special edition pieces are the Hochstand, Renner, Rocking Chair, Stummer Stuhl, Karren, Schaukel, Pressed Bar Stool, Pressed Bench, Flocking Chair and the Pressed Bistro.

Apart from these new special edition pieces, the chair will now also be exhibited at the X-D-E-P-O-T of Die Neue Sammlung- The Design Museum in the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany, for the next two decades.