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Designer Fredrik Paulsen has a long-standing love of pine. What began as a relationship of convenience, when Paulsen turned to accessible materials as a young designer, has developed into a deep-held appreciation. Today Paulsen’s much-coveted psychedelic pine furniture and structures are defining works in a genre of design that promotes unpretentious materials. Paulsen is also a compulsive producer of chairs, making him a natural choice to design Vaarnii’s 001 Dining Chair.
Yes, it’s the most wood-like of woods.
Yes, always. I am never leaving anything behind, it will never be finished it for me. I love it.
It is a massive beast; robust, direct, brutal and stable! I wanted to create something that you didn’t need to be careful and cautious around, that you can interact with without being afraid that it will break or tip over, I wanted to make something that is, somehow, an extension of the house; like a piece of architecture. It is an object that is present – really present. I am always intrigued by infrastructure; public benches screwed into the ground, objects that are there to serve, this chair has a little of that in it.
Carefully crafting wooden objects by hand is a much-loved pursuit of Danish designer Henrik Tjaerby, yet the economy and efficiency of industrial design is his passion too. Tjaerby brings these two alternate methods of making together in furniture designs he describes as the product of a ‘50/50’ approach; craft and engineering combined. What better match, then, for Vaarnii where craft skills regular run alongside hi-tech processes in their pursuit of a modern vernacular. Tjaerby’s first design for Vaarnii is Osa, a series of outdoor furniture that perfectly demonstrates these shared values.
Henrik Tjaerby: I am from Denmark, but I currently live in Spain, in a place called Galicia in the north-west. I’ve been here for around 14 years now. It was never the plan, though, to stay here. I thought I would stick around for about two years, maximum, and go back to London where I was living before. But I am still here.
Yes. I worked with Tom whilst he was Creative Director of Artek – that was when the Finnish connection began. At the time Tom wanted to try to do something new with that huge icon of Finnish design. We produced a range made from bamboo and I went to live in Japan for four months, setting up a factory there.
I just don’t think people had thought of it. Also, to use pine for an outdoor design, it is necessary to use a bit more volume of material, which maybe other brands were not interested in. I looked at prefabricated structures; beams and things that have an inherent strength to them; engineered shapes rather than planks of woods.
We found a timber that was already being produced in Finland using an innovative process of heating wood. This reduces its resin and moisture content, stopping it from warping and twisting. It also has the added bonus of making the timber lighter – this of course makes it easier to work with. I wanted to try to reduce labour further by working with existing prefabricated profiles. There was a catalogue of available off-the-shelf components and I landed on this T profile.
Vaarnii is a furniture company that makes brutal and sophisticated design objects from a single natural raw material; Finnish pine, by local craftspeople and factories in Finland.
Our first range is made entirely from Scots pine, the most populous tree in Finland. Pine is a particularly characterful wood, lending itself to being used in generous swathes and hulking forms. And so the objects in our Pine Range are resolute and strong, designed to last a lifetime or longer and to age beautifully whilst doing so.
Just as the Dining Chair makes no excuses for its heft, Fredrik Paulsen’s Dining Table is similarly forthright about its purpose. This is a piece of furniture designed to work hard for generations to come. The lively grain of solid pine is especially present over the table’s large surface areas whilst the simple logic and artistry of its making is enjoyably explicit.
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