LIONEL JADOT for TODD MERRILL - Price Upon Request

ABOUT THE DESIGNER

"As a sixth-generation member of the famous Vanhamme family of furniture makers, in the world of design, Lionel Jadot is equal parts self-taught and “to the manner born.”

While not easily categorized by a singular style, Jadot’s work could most easily be recognized by his affinity for repurposed materials and his deft eye at creating harmony and balance out of the collision of disparate elements. With the vision and confidence to experiment and evolve, Jadot has made a practice of skirting tradition by mixing genres, inspirations, and materials to achieve his iconoclastic vision. Key to his work process is a strong belief in craftsmanship and integrity in terms of behaviour and approach."

ABOUT THE DESIGN

Lionel Jadot’s Jam Seat is adapted from a design prototype created sometime between 1905 – 1910 by Jadot’s great-grandfather, the head of the legendary Vanhamme family of furniture makers. Inspired by the more geometric forms of the late Vienna Secession movement, the forward-thinking chair design dismisses traditionalist style in favour of a modern, streamlined look, rendered in a single material. The design is distilled into four flat planes of the cut brass sheet that are pieced together like an angular puzzle. The reductive and planar form of Jam Seat predates similar conceptual designs such as Dutch designer Gerrit Rietveld’s Red and Blue Chair, created in 1917 and Shiro Kuramata’s Glass chair from 1976.