The majority of our wooden products are made in oak and oak veneer. Chosen for its distinctive appearance as well as its strength and density, oak allows us to create durable, high-quality products suited to the contract market. All of our wooden products are finished with a water-based lacquer to protect the wood from wear and stains.

We work with oak in Natural, Light Smoked, Dark Smoked and Black. The different finishes bring out different sides of the wood, even in the Black finish, the natural grain can still be seen through the color. Other series use ash and bamboo for the frame, while rattan is used for selected seating elements.

Character Oak includes offcuts, aesthetically rejected wood, and pieces with small holes or traces left by insects that have lived in the material. The wood is processed and treated in the same way as our other oak, and the chair is made to the same high structural standards. The differences are purely visual, with the markings and variations left visible in the finished chair.

At NORR11, materials have always been an important part of how we approach our designs. We spend considerable time exploring how to bring tactility, variation and character into the materials we work with. Sometimes, that means choosing natural materials that already carry a sense of life, like the grain and imperfections of wood.

You can read more about the Evig Chair and the thinking behind its design in A Chameleon of a Chair.