Skrolla

Skrolla is a designer lounge chair for residential or contract use. It is extremely comfortable due to its unique bent wood curvature and ideal dimensions and seat angles. It is constructed in a completely new way for a chair, from only six wood parts (utility patented). It features a single scroll-shaped seat and arm part, and a backrest, which are each formed from 13 layers of plywood veneer.

The legs go through the seat bottom of the scroll, and secure to the underside of the arms. This leg attachment method securely locks in the legs without the need for additional bracing underneath. The larger diameter of the leg below the seat carries the weight of the chair like a shoulder. The backrest curves around and enters the scroll opening in the back, where it is mortised into the back legs. Skrolla comes in walnut, rosewood, natural oak, or ebony ash.

Skrolla features a revolutionary new way to assemble a chair, and as such, it has a completely fresh and unique appearance and comfortable seating position.

The Problem: Most designer lounge chairs are bulky, heavy, complex to manufacture, expensive, and look too similar. They needed a new approach.

A lounge chair embodies the very best of what design can be. A great lounge chair is comfortable, beautiful, and wonderfully revealing of its materials and processes. This is Skrolla.

Skrolla's construction is so novel it was granted a utility patent. Thirteen layers of veneer are epoxied together then placed in a vacuum bag which pulls the veneer over a form. When the epoxy sets, the scroll shaped seat becomes very rigid. The seat pops right off the form due to the wide draft angle, which is also the ideal seat recline angle. The seat and back are then cut to shape, and holes are drilled for legs which are inserted and glued to the underside of the arms. The backrest then mortises into the back legs.

The legs are 1.5" in diameter at the bottom and 1.25" in between seat and arms, so the sitter's weight rests on these four "shoulders."

Skrolla has only six parts (four legs, a seat, and a back). There is an optional upholstered seat cushion.

Skrolla is lightweight but extremely strong due to its unique "scroll box" construction.

Skrolla's appearance says it all. It is graceful, flowing, warm and welcoming—just what you want from a lounge chair. It has personality!

The design is aesthetically economical and pure. There are absolutely no unnecessary design elements.

The curved seat and back are in perfect harmony, especially seeing as the back curves in between the scroll arms and attaches to the back legs.

The legs, which are thicker under the seat to support it, visually reveal their weight-bearing function perfectly.

Skrolla's look is extremely unique. There is simply no other chair like it.

Credits

Client: Skrolla

Designer: Dan Harden

Country: United States

Photographs: © WX Group LLC / © Dan Harden