<transcy>BYK chair / oak wood</transcy>
€590,00
Design: 1966
Designer: Edmund Homa
Delivery time about 4 -5 weeks
The BYK is available in ash or oak - with a natural, silk-matt surface. The seat is padded and covered with fabric or leather.
Dimensions: W: 61 cm I H: 77 cm I D: 51 cm
Seat height: 46 cm
Wooden frame: oak wood, oiled
Leather: Cuoio
Leather design: CUOIO
Material: semi-aniline leather
The leather Cuoio is semi-aniline leather - a leather of special quality. It is cowhide that is dyed in the barrel with soluble dyes and the surface is lightly pigmented. In contrast to other leather, the leather has a slightly vintage look.
About the design:
The BYK chair is one of Edmund Homa's most distinctive designs. Developed in 1966 as a single prototype, the chair never went into series production.
The special, organic backrest made of solid wood was classified as too complex and cost-intensive for centrally controlled mass production.
The chair was presented by POLITURA in 2020 and shortly afterwards it received the most important Polish design award MUST HAVE.
About the designer:
Edmund Homa was born in northern Poland in 1927. After completing a degree in interior design at the Danzig Art Academy, he established himself as a freelance designer in the field of graphic, interior and furniture design.
From 1962 he worked for the Danzig Art Academy and the state furniture industry, for which he mainly designed seating furniture. Some of his designs are still in Polish homes and public institutions.
Edmund Homa also received a scholarship from the Royal Danish Academy of Art, where he worked under Ole Wanscher's direction.