Pair Chair by Benjamin Hubert of LAYER for Fritz Hansen.

Benjamin Hubert, of experience design agency Layer has created Pair Chair, a modular seating system for Fritz Hansen. Hubert is the first British designer to launch a product with the renowned Danish furniture brand. Pair Chair is a seating system with over 8,000 possible unique combinations, giving architects and interior designers flexibility in specification. The Chair launched at The Republic of Fritz Hansen showroom during the recent London Design Festival.

Pair Chair embraces the Mid-Century design language that Fritz Hansen pioneered, utilising a pressed plywood shell with a strong sense of fluid geometry. The traditional material of the seat shell is paired with an injection moulded polycarbonate backrest, creating an interesting tension between old and new and modernising the Fritz Hansen material palette. The backrest is moulded with 10% transparency, which elevates the plastic material by giving it a glass-like quality.

The Pair Chair seating system is the result of 30 prototypes over a three-year development period, and represents the studio’s increased focus on delivering intelligent and flexible furniture systems.

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[Images courtesy of Layer.]