With a seemingly impossible slim silhouette and lightness, the task chair Eline gives a comfortable seating for an active and long use. Despite the fact that materials and details in the construction have been reduced to an absolute minimum, and all other parameters taken to its limits, a pleasant flex in the form-pressed seating shell has been achieved. With different leg frames and choice of colours, Eline constitutes a harmonic balancing act between technique and form.

“We wanted to make the thinnest and lightest task chair possible, free from all the levers and controls, but without having to compromise with the comfort. In order to make the seat flexible without breaking, we constructed a cradle. It works as a buffer against the leg frame, which fixates the seating shell just enough to give a pleasant flex in both the back and seat. The slightest change in the dimensions of the materials or angel of the components, affects the dynamics. At the same time the seating angel and height of the armrests have to be just right for ergonomics and aesthetic expression. Together with Edsbyn we feel that we really have taken this concept to the limit of what is technically possible.

This chair looked different when we started, but as we gradually reduced the materials, it received another expression. In other words, this is not a chair that you realise through sketches, it has been designed through the many digital and physical tests that measures durability. The shapes on an airplane are determined by the conditions of aerodynamics but can still be very beautiful. Furniture also have a tradition of becoming beautiful as a result of their technical conditions. You could say that in these cases, function creates form, in the best possible way.”

Design by Claesson Koivisto Rune