Anatomy of a Nub chair
Over 200 years to make a good wooden chair
Turning a wooden plank into a design classic requires the creativity of a good designer
A good idea is useless when it is not well materialized. Know-how is the value that makes the difference in any profession and all the people who work with us have it. Mastery is another fundamental quality when it comes to working with wood, upholstery or braiding to weave a rope seat. What was once traditional is now exceptional. We have always been very aware that to build the future we have to keep the past alive, so we encourage a continuous learning process within our company, overlapping the youngest apprentices with the most experienced operators, so that their skills continue to be passed on from generation to generation.
What it costs to make a Nub chair
The time needed to manufacture this piece is 1,035 seconds or 17.25 hours, which is equivalent to more than two days of work. The pre-drying time for all wood parts is 15 days. The drying time for the plank, on the other hand, takes 3 to 5 years. The growth time of the tree adds another 200 years.
In short, a good wooden chair needs more than two hundred years to be made, it is one of the few affordable luxuries we have left.
We are a family business and we are proud to explain that this knowledge is also passed down from father to son within our company. Andreu World's future master cabinetmakers will be a reflection of our own evolution; they will have the same skills with hand tools as with the CNC technology with which we are able to produce industrially worked shapes.
Throughout our evolution, our commitment to good design has also been fundamental, which comes from the hand of creators such as Patricia Urquiola. She shares with us the importance and the need to always use renewable resources and 100% FSC®-certified wood, which guarantees transparency in terms of the origin and traceability of the material with which we manufacture chairs such as the Nub.
It was her first collaboration with Andreu World and in it she tells a little story of her childhood, lace. The shapes of those little tools that became her playmates, reinterpreted in a contemporary key, served as inspiration to give character and personality to a collection of seating where wood can also express all its evocative value.
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