studio vertijet

Studio Vertijet is run by Kirsten Hoppert and Steffen Kroll, who founded the company together in 2000. With Hoppert’s interior design background and Steffen Kroll’s product & industrial design expertise, the duo has produced a number of notable furniture pieces. Above: Nuba is a solid, imposing seating collection with clean lines. The squared edges and straight lines are softened by U-shaped armrests and seatbacks, which lends Nuba an organic-cum-industrial appeal.

Hob pushes the limits of bentwood construction in a novel way: upholstery is noticeably absent particularly in the bottom of the seat, which relies on the inherent flexibility of bentwood to provide a springy, but supportive seating surface. A tightly wrapped layer of felt or bend leather softens the hard edges of wood, while a lightly-colored swiveling aluminum frame appears to levitate the chair above the ground.

In addition to furniture, Studio Vertijet has made significant inroads into the designer floor decor market. Their Cor series of carpets is sold exclusively by German furnishings retailer Cor, and employs seemingly innocuous but powerful design details. Above: Elka features a mixture of virgin wool and high-pile wick yarn; Felt has elegantly rounded corners wrapped in leather welting; Grex is dotted with loops of sheath yarn, culminating into a mass of wool fibers along one edge; Lina 2’s lines are shorter-pile fibers arranged in an organic, wavy pattern not unlike wood grain.

The Scroll Collection’s two chief features are an adjustable back with four positions and a flat, blocky body which hugs the ground. Similar to the Nuba, Scroll’s rounded edges help to offset an otherwise formidable presence; not quite cute, but not exactly austere either.
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