kettal giro

sewn from rope

Van Duysen names the Orkney chair as his main reference, a vernacular piece whose back was made of real rope. Giro keeps the stitched construction and swaps the old fiber for recycled polypropylene, which can be produced in a factory and left outside all year. His stated aim was respect for the craft tradition, carried out with the know-how Kettal already has.

The seating runs from a garden chair with armrests and a folding chair with armrests to a fabric armchair, sofas in two and three seat lengths, and a sectional garden sofa. The two seater is offered with the arm on the right, on the left or with none, which lets several of them line up in a row. Every sofa rests on a teak base.

The tables sit low and wide. There is a low round coffee table in two sizes and an oval coffee table, both in teak with ceramic tops, plus a round cement coffee table in two sizes and a rectangular teak and ceramic table, also in two sizes. Ceramic and cement do not fade in sun, which suits a table that stays out all summer.

Polypropylene rope does not rot and dries quickly after a shower. The teak weathers to gray unless it is oiled once or twice a season. As a Kettal Giro set grows from one chair to a full lounge, the palette stays short: rope, wood, clay. That restraint suits a covered city terrace as well as a lawn by the water.

Rope stitched into a seat, the Orkney way.