Studio FORME · Copenhagen
21 pieces, made properly
A permanent catalogue rather than a collection. Specified in millimetres, built to be taken apart, and revised when the drawing improves — never replaced because the season changed.
- 21
- Pieces
- 5
- Designers
- 10 yr
- Parts guarantee
We publish drawings, not seasons
Every piece has a reference number and a dimensioned drawing, and both stay the same for as long as the piece is made. When we improve something we revise the drawing and keep the number, so a chair bought in 2019 still takes the same replacement parts.
The Living Room
A third-floor flat with north light for most of the day. Everything sits low so the window line stays uninterrupted from the doorway.
Four categories
Seating, tables, lighting and objects. Twelve pieces in total, which is the number we can make properly.
FS-04 Lounge Chair
Foam collapses. It is cheap, comfortable on day one, and measurably worse every year after. This chair uses a natural latex core over a horsehair pad, which is roughly four times the material cost and holds its shape for decades rather than years. The recline is fixed at 14° because an adjustable mechanism would add a moving part to a chair with none, and 14° is the angle at which the lumbar support does its work without making the chair hard to leave.
Lounge Chair — 2.340 €Added to the catalogue
06 — On materials
Solid timber moves. We design for it.
A 900mm-wide solid oak top expands and contracts by up to 8mm across the grain between a humid Copenhagen summer and a heated winter. Most furniture ignores this, which is why tabletops split along a glue line after five years.
Our tops use breadboard ends — cross-grain pieces attached with drawbored mortises and elongated pegholes — so the panel can move without tearing itself apart. It is slower, it costs more, and it is the difference between furniture that lasts a decade and furniture that lasts a lifetime.
The same logic applies to the frames, which are bolted rather than welded so they can be flat-packed up a narrow stairwell, and to the finishes, which are oils rather than lacquers so a mark can be sanded out locally.
