David Irwin has reimagined the wooden folding chair giving it a modern update and imbuing it with a resounding sense of quality and aesthetic appeal. The elegant design of Narin features a smooth sweeping transition from the turned oak legs into the formed backrest, which also doubles as the mount for the pivot from where the back leg rotates.
The seat and back of the chair are formed from layered birch ply with an oak veneer with an oiled finish and stainless steel fixings. The fixings contained on the underside of the chair slide along the grooves within the back legs to present a graceful silhouette with clean flowing lines, which looks as good folded away for storage as it does when open and in use.
Born in Northern Ireland in 1986, David Irwin graduated in Three Dimensional Design at Northumbria University in 2007. He completed a fellowship on the Designers in Residence initiative at Northumbria’s School of Design in 2010 and subsequently went on to establish his own industrial design studio in 2011.
Irwin works for leading manufacturers and design led companies such as Habitat, Deadgood and Case Furniture operating specifically within the spectrum of modern furniture, product and designer lighting design.
