Slip Chair now available
Snarkitecture is a contributor
UVA is collaborating with emerging global designers
All products are manually numbered
WSDIA is a contributor
100% Crafted in Portugal
From Portugal and working with designers from all over the world, UVA is a company that develops objects inspired by traditional craft skills, applied to a context of global design, technology and innovation. With the goal of empowering and reactivating Portuguese ancestral economies based in small workshops and hand making solutions, UVA promotes a collaborative approach to the design process.
UVA creates products that people can relate to, taking the shared knowledge between designers and artisans who blend their vast experience with technics, materials and most importantly with human potentials. In this process, where the local meets the global, UVA becomes as a platform for carrying traditions a step forward.
& Daniel Arsham
& Ben Porto
Snarkitecture is a New York-based collaborative studio who investigates the boundaries between art and architecture. The name of the collective is drawn from Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of The Snark, a poem describing the “impossible voyage of an improbable crew to find an inconceivable creature.” Pursuing an identical search for the unknown, Snarkitecture creates architectural-scale projects, installations, and objects.
Snarkitecture’s work focuses on the reinterpretation of everyday materials, structures and programs to reach new and imaginative effects. With a conceptual approach centered on the importance of a direct experience, the studio creates unexpected and memorable moments and invite people to explore and engage with their surroundings. By transforming the familiar into the extraordinary, Snarkitecture makes architecture perform the unexpected.
Slip Chair is a wooden chair that appears to be sinking into the ground. As it may seem unusable at first, the wooden frame is even out with a tapered stone and a functional surface for sitting is provided. The apparently opposed elements of the chair are counterbalanced through the monolithic volume of the stone. The chair revolves upon two axes and the suggested unsteadiness of the sliding forms conceals the complete stability of Slip.
The first version of Slip is released in White Ash and Black Marble.
Each chair is handcrafted, numbered and certified. Expected shipping time of 16 weeks.
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24 × 21.5 × 31 inches
17.5 inches
Italian leather cover (washable), solid oak frame, vegetable tanning
Brown
UVA3103
info@uva.pt
Praça do Marquês, 169
4000-391 Porto
Portugal
