Each chair is hand-made in northern Italy in ash wood. Each chair has a brass nametag detailing its character with my handwriting in the back.

We are running a limited edition series of 12 with maker’s mark.

Dimensions | 43.8 x 40 x 84.4 cm

If you have inquiries about different/special finishes, colours or wood essences please get in touch at hello@isabellalobkowicz.com.

It’s curious how many designers design chairs, so many chairs, but nobody seems to think about the characters who are going to use them. Who is going to sit on a chair we design today? Will all human characters – with all their nuances – be satisfied by the very same backrest, four legs and seat? I don’t think so!

I like the idea that by slightly modifying the legs, backrest and seat of a chair, I would be able to fit it to the person who’d sit on it. It all started with a bunch of drawings on a Moleskine notebook, and then they became a book published by Moleskine, and only now we achieved the long-time dream of sitting on the very chairs.

I started off the collection with a commission: 10 prototypes of ‘A chair for …’: the holy, the cautious, the bodybuilder, the voyeur, the underdressed, the classy, the undecided, the royal, the parent and child and the goth. But I’d like this inclusive project to expand and capture many more characters in the future. I believe no one size fits all; as we express ourselves in our clothing choices, our makeup or hairstyle, we should be able to do so also through our furniture: the chunky beings that silently inhabit our everyday visual identity.

And so it is.

May the holy never sit without their halo, may the cautious be reassured by having 16, sturdy legs, the bodybuilder fit their giant shoulders on their ad hoc trapezoidal backrest, and so on. Most of all, may everybody find the chair that most represents them!

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