Chair Aisuu
Walter Knoll
Chair Aisuu
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This is exactly what you want your guests to be: present, but not presumptuous, elegant, but unpretentious. Aisuu Chair is just that. And it has a good story to tell, too: this chair was designed by a woman who grew up with her brilliantly creative grandfather, an architect who was close to the Bauhaus.
As a child, designer Ginger Zalaba was surrounded by the irrepressibly creative work of her grandfather, Otto Kolb. She lived and breathed the design language of modernity. Aisuu Chair is made up of its vocabulary, put together to create its very own, new esthetics. As lightweight and delicate as verse, as powerful as a statement. Its construction alone – a masterpiece of statics and craftsmanship. Three tubes each meet up at six points. Although they are welded, they seem to be of a piece. The high-grade saddle leather – left natural, warm on your body, finished by hand at the edges. Over the course of its lifetime, the leather will develop a patina, which in turn will tell another, very personal story.
Aisuu Chair is related to Aisuu Side Chair. Where the latter has a casual, roomy effect with its wings, Aisuu Chair is more upright. The chair finds its place at a dining table or hotel bar, ready to welcome guests and their stories.
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Designer
Ginger Zalaba
Ginger Zalaba grew up among artists and designers. Originally she dreamt of owning a gallery. She graduated from Zurich University of the Arts with a master’s in exhibition design. After her father’s death, she took over her parents’ company in her mid-twenties and, with great determination, transformed it into the design studio she has managed since 2012. In the meantime she has studied interior design at the IED Institute of Design in Italy and made her début at the world’s leading furnishings show, the Salone del Mobile in Milan, with her own furniture collection in 2015. She draws on the designs of her grandfather Otto Kolb, the famous Swiss architect and designer, who designed buildings in America in the 1950s which adhered to the principles of the Bauhaus – buildings which today feature in the National Register of Historic Places. Aisuu Chair and Aisuu Side Chair are the artist’s tribute to her grandfather – and the first joint project of Zalaba and Walter Knoll.
A Child of Bauhaus: How Ginger Zalaba reinterpreted her grandfather's ideas
Walter Knoll
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Walter Knoll clearly professes to sustainable economic activity. Thinking ecologically, acting responsibly and sustainably – a philosophy they live and breathe in the company and always have. One important aspect is enduring design quality. Durability applies not only to the appearance but also to the material.
Minimalist and timeless design is sustainable design. Because the use of natural materials, the minimal use of resources and aesthetic durability are characteristic of our design and architecture. This is how durability becomes ecology – even at the early stage of the draft. With their permanent, tested quality, our products are quite genuinely companions for life – not just for years but for decades.
