Red Chair

Red Chair is reduced almost to the limit of how little material is needed for us still to read an object as a chair.

Seven lacquered steel rods form a three-dimensional drawing in space: part furniture, part sculpture, part graphic gesture.

The chair was originally created for the exhibition Five Playful Chairs in 2005 and produced in a limited edition of ten. It has since entered the collections of both Nationalmuseum in Stockholm and the Röhsska Museum of Design and Craft in Gothenburg.

Red Chair has also appeared in several international books documenting the defining design of the 21st century.

Its strength lies in its immediacy. It is recognisably a chair, yet almost everything we normally associate with a chair has been removed.

Red Chair is a chair design by the Swedish designer Alexander Lervik, dated 2005. The work is produced by Gallery Pascale, which manufactures and distributes it, while the design originates in Lervik’s studio. In the portfolio it is listed under chairs.

Red Chair is represented in Nasjonalmuseet in Oslo and Nationalmuseum in Stockholm and Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg, according to the records listed on the museum collections page.

Alexander Lervik is a Swedish designer whose work spans furniture, lighting, product design and collectible design. His practice combines function, storytelling, technology and conceptual experimentation, moving between industrial production, limited-edition objects and design art. He trained at Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm and runs his studio in Österlen in the south of Sweden.

The project belongs to a body of work that is represented in museum collections including Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, Nasjonalmuseet in Oslo and the Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg, and that has been covered by international design and news media. Related works can be found through the furniture, lighting and collectible design pages and in the complete portfolio.