From Swedish designer Sture Eng, DARBY is one of the most popular and long-selling chairs made by CondeHouse. Since its launch 45 years ago, this lightweight and stackable chair has been through several revision rounds to reach its full potential, and is consequently still used widely in residences, as well as installations in public spaces such corporate facilities and restaurants.
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Swedish designer Sture Eng is behind the beloved CondeHouse classic, DARBY. He said, “It’s difficult to talk about a design philosophy because it’s like talking about how to think and work. I believe the process of my thought as a designer starts from open thinking, and it boils down to useful ideas. I sometimes start the process from sketching something, while I come up with good ideas to be a work plan with which I try to find suitable design languages to express a particular form. What I’m now interested in is to work on a model in the scale of 1:1 by hand to check dimensions, etc. I’ve been going on about my design philosophy, but what is most important is a relationship of trust with the production side that I cooperate with.”
