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A sculptural lounge chair in ivory bouclé with a walnut frame in an empty plastered room

01 · 2024

The Aurelia Seating Collection

Seven pieces drawn from a single curve, developed over two years and made in a workshop of four.

Pieces
7
Year
2024
Materials
Bouclé · Walnut · Saddle leather · Bronze
IThe Origin

Aurelia began as a complaint. We could not find a lounge chair that was low enough to relax in, high enough to rise from unaided, and quiet enough to place beside a nineteenth-century console.

The collection took eleven prototypes. The arm profile alone was redrawn thirty-one times, each version cut in polystyrene and sat in for a week before judgement was passed.

It is made by a workshop of four people in the Marches. They produce roughly ninety pieces a year and will not produce more.

IIInspiration

The curve of a Roman bath step, photographed by our founder in 2019 and pinned to the studio wall for four years before it became a chair.

IIICraft

Frames are steam-bent walnut, mortise-and-tenon jointed, with no metal fixings in the visible structure. Upholstery is hand-stuffed with horsehair over a webbed base — a construction that will outlast its first three owners.

IVThe Collection
The Aurelia lounge chair in ivory bouclé
Aurelia Lounge, ivory bouclé and oiled walnut
Macro photograph of ivory bouclé weave
The bouclé, woven in Belgium
Macro photograph of oiled walnut grain
Steam-bent walnut, hand-oiled
VCatalogue

Every piece, specified.

Aurelia Lounge Chair

Dimensions
W 780 · D 860 · H 690 · SH 380 mm
Materials
Steam-bent walnut, horsehair, bouclé

Finishes

  • Oiled walnut
  • Fumed walnut
  • Blackened ash

Available in nineteen upholstery references. Lead time sixteen weeks.

Aurelia Two-Seat Settee

Dimensions
W 1620 · D 860 · H 690 · SH 380 mm
Materials
Steam-bent walnut, horsehair, bouclé

Finishes

  • Oiled walnut
  • Fumed walnut

Single-cushion seat. Lead time twenty weeks.

Aurelia Dining Chair

Dimensions
W 480 · D 540 · H 810 · SH 460 mm
Materials
Steam-bent walnut, saddle leather

Finishes

  • Oiled walnut
  • Fumed walnut
  • Blackened ash

Leather hand-stitched. Minimum order of four.

Aurelia Ottoman

Dimensions
W 620 · D 480 · H 380 mm
Materials
Walnut, horsehair, bouclé

Finishes

  • Oiled walnut
  • Fumed walnut

Pairs with the lounge chair at matching seat height.

A chair is the only piece of furniture that has to agree with the human body. Everything else can simply be beautiful.
Sanjana Tyagi, Founder
A Mediterranean villa interior opening onto a terrace at golden hour

Enquiries

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Studios
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Availability
Commissions worldwide

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