Name: x+l 11 Lounge Chair
Brand: Phantom Hands
Availability: OutOfStock

The Lounge Chair echoes classic mid-century design and is constructed with traditional woodworking joineries. The upholstery fabric is a cotton/silk blend called 'Thasra'. The chair is available in two combinations of paired fabric colour and wood shade. The two combinations are Night Sky fabric colour (dark blue) + Burnt Cobalt Coir wood finish or Sequoia fabric colour (rust) + Dark Teak wood finish.

The fabric used for the chairs is a cotton/silk blend produce by our fabric collaborator Zanav Home. It is made up of a very coarse open end cotton yarn plied with hand spun silk yarn to compensate for the lack of strength of the cotton yarn. The silk yarn is made from mulberry silk waste which gives it a unique and uneven texture. The yarns are dyed to achieve the desired colours and woven on primitive looms whose frames are sunken in the ground. These pit looms are ideal for weaving fabrics like Thasra as the ground absorbs the tension of the heavy weaving, which is not possible with conventional looms. The process of spinning to weaving to finishing is done entirely by hand which translates into the character of the fabric. Inconsistencies in colour and texture are characteristic of this fabric.

Seat Height: 35.5 cm

x+l 11 Lounge Chair

Brand

Phantom Hands

Collection

x+l

Designer

x+l

x + l stands for Xander Vervoort and Leon van Boxtel, designers based in Amsterdam, Holland. With a background in theater and art, they founded x+l studio in 1996, focusing on interior design. Through the years they worked in several disciplines: photography, advertising, stage design, fashion and exhibition design. In addition to this commissioned work they create handmade objects that are unique or produced in very small numbers. The studio consists of just the two founders. working closely together with artisan friends, enables them to maintain the very personal view that is x+l.