Wrapped

Separate wooden parts and approximately 110 meters of rope together form the basis for the stool 'Wrapped'.

The wooden parts are manually wrapped with the rope in a special way. By simply wrapping the rope around, the construction is fixed without using glue or screws. 'Wrapped' can be used as a stool or as a handy side table.

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Transparency of the production chain comes naturally to us.

For us, that doesn't just mean giving information about where something has been produced. Our chain starts much earlier: with the designer of the product!

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The Wrapped stool is designed by Floris Hovers. Floris lives and works in Raamsdonksveer, where he also grew up. His designs surprise by their disarming simplicity. No abstract minimalism, but the end result of a long process of reduction.

The inspiration for the Wrapped stool came from cardboard wrapping cards, also known as bobbins, which are used for the neat storage and keeping of leftover (embroidery) yarn.

Floris Hovers

"A design should work, but it should work smoothly. I want to show how attractive and suitable simplicity can be. A lot of ideas dry up if I can't solve things within my own, intuitive simplicity guidelines.“

Quote from the book 'Hovers' Manual of Things'

The Wrapped stool is part of the Vij5 collection since 2009. We met Floris during our very first Dutch Design Week expo, where we were 'neighbours' in the Clock building (Klokgebouw). We became great fans of his work and he became one of the first designers we started working with within our label.

The stool Wrapped symbolizes the beauty of simplicity and comes from an interesting approach to a standard object. The stool / side table literally needs Floris' hands for assembly and is therefore difficult to produce using machines alone. It breathes the designer's love for interaction between man and machine.

Not only nice as a stool, but also as a side table, here at our house it is showing off with a bowl from RENS on top.

Some designers are already very far along with a product when we get in touch with them. This was the case, for example, with the stool Wrapped. Floris actually presented the stool completely ready-made during Dutch Design Week and had already made the step from 'Translate'. Wrapped is actually a further development of the 'Fixed lounger', a chair that originated from a graduation project of Floris in which he researched different forms of temporary repairs. Both pieces of furniture have an alternative assembly, without the use of glue and/or screws.

Every Wrapped stool is made by Floris Hovers himself in his own workshop. His industrial handwork is characterized by simple and clear industrial forms and constructions, in which he seeks the balance between man and machine.

The wrapping of the stool is a job that requires a lot of patience, but Floris has his 'tricks' for this. He told us that it takes him about half an hour to wrap/fix one stool. Is the rope of the stool unexpectedly damaged? Floris can repair it with love.

In the material passport you can find where and by whom the different parts of this product are made.

Every Wrapped stool is manufactured by designer Floris Hovers in his own workshop.

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