For those who’d like a detailed take a look at a number of the particulars of Kaare Klint’s Safari Chair, try this video (OK, it’s a business) from Carl Hansen & Søn on the piece.
You get to see the elegant cigar-shape stretchers and the way the marginally tapered tenons circulate into the general form. Plus a bunch of good close-ups of the way in which the leather-based is hooked up to the wooden.
I’ve seen lots of new Roorkee/Safari chairs available on the market these days, a few of them with design particulars I rejected. On my first Roorkees I used a vegetable-tanned leather-based that I left pure. Heck, I even despatched images of it to Standard Woodworking to make use of within the article printed three years in the past on constructing them. I rapidly modified my thoughts on the leather-based shade, considering it to “fleshy” – virtually a “Silence of the Roorkees” look.
However a number of design homes are actually triumphing that look – pure leather-based with darkish wooden.
I’m nonetheless not a fan.
If you wish to construct one in all these chairs, full plans are in “Marketing campaign Furnishings,” now in its second printing.
— Christopher Schwarz
