Nine people, four workshops, one chair
Following the Meret from a stack of rough oak in Halle to a living room in Rotterdam.
The lead time printed on a product page is usually a guess dressed as a promise. At Werkstatt Halle it is a queue you can count.
Stage one — the frame
Four components make up the Meret frame: two side profiles, a front rail and a back rail. Each is cut oversize, planed, then cut again on the second day.
A chair is not a piece of furniture until it has been sat in by someone who did not build it.Tobias Lehr · workshop lead, Halle
Between the shell arriving back in Halle and the chair going into a box, two people spend an afternoon on it.