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An offer you just can´t refuse ”Take a seat my friend”. He leans back with a slight gesture towards the empty chair. It is black, leathered – genuine. The late afternoon sun casts long shadows across the black and white tiled floor, and I can only make out the man at the other end of the table as a dark silhouette, I sit down. ”What can I do for you?” His voice is as calm and businesslike as always. Just as I remember. He doesn´t seem surprised to see me again. Comfortably seated in his chair, nothing seems to be able to surprise him. Even though I can´t discern his face in the half-light I can sense his penetrating gaze. How it measures me.
There is no way that I could hide anything from those eyes. Might as well lay all the cards on the table. ”I´ve come to ask for your help” I try to keep my voice steady. ”You´ve got problems?” ”Yes, I´m about to furnish an office. And I need really neat furniture. Can you help me out?” The question hovers in the air for a second, before he breaks the silence: ”Well, of course! You´re my friend – I do anything for my friends.” He comes towards me and puts his hand on my shoulder. ”As a matter of fact, I already think I have the solution to your problem...”
Fat Boy was the first chair that Modart Design sold. And it sold big time. Fatboy bacame something of a company symbol, and it still highly praised by the true fans. Capo di Capi or ”Boss of all bosses” is one of the latest in a series of successful furniture that Modart Design has created. A true piece of art with an air of authority and an attitude saying ”don´t mess with me”. Something that applies to every piece of furniture from Modart.
Fat Boy
Capo di Capi
CAPO DI CAPI chair DESIGN: T GUL
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GEMELLO table DESIGN: T GUL
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Chair: Capo di capi • Table: Gemello
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I need a man who has powerful friends... and good taste.
If there is trouble, I will stay here to help you.
This is the business we chose, this is the rule we follow: never let the customer down.
KAJAK flip top
DESIGN: Helge Leikanger
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Table: Kajak flip top • Chair: Slim
Table: Kajak flip top • Chair: Spirit
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CIRKLE table
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Chair: Spirit barstool • Table: Cirkle
Table: Cirkle • Chair: Ultra glide
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ELECTRA chair/ sofa/ table
DESIGN: Helge Leikanger
He taught me one thing: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
Electra sofa, coffee table and chair
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Electra chair and coffee table
Electra sofa and chair
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Ask your friends in the business about me. They know.
Electra chair and coffee table
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In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.
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ULTRA glide
DESIGN: Helge Leikanger
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Chair: Ultra glide • Table: Cirkle
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ULTRA chair
DESIGN: Helge Leikanger
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ULTRA FAT BOYchair chair
DESIGN: DESIGN:Helge HelgeLeikanger Leikanger
Since they came to my office, everything has changed.
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SLIM chair
DESIGN: Helge Leikanger
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Chair: Slim • Table: Cirkle
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Chair: Slim • Table: Cirkle
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SPIRIT chair
DESIGN: Helge Leikanger
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SPIRIT table
DESIGN: Helge Leikanger
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SPIRIT bar stool DESIGN: Helge Leikanger
I´m gonna give you an offer you just can´t refuse.
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SPIRIT beamseating DESIGN: Helge Leikanger
I know how to return a favor.
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SPIRIT easy chair DESIGN: Helge Leikanger
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Spirit table and easy chair
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DOMINO table
DESIGN: Helge Leikanger
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Chair: Spirit • Table: Domino
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PAZZO chair DESIGN: T GUL
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A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Why didn´t you come to me first?
Helge Leikanger
Studied interior Architecture and Furniture Design at Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Norway. Received his diploma in 1979 and a design scholarship in 1980. His work has been honored with the Award for Good Design from the Norwegian Design Council in 1984 and 1996.
What is your favorite piece of furniture from Modart? I don´t really like ranking my own furniture. But I do have a special relationship to Fatboy.
Where do you get your inspiration? When an idea of mine is approved, and I get to follow it from the first sketch to the final result. An idea can be born over a glass of good wine and good music!
What is good design to you? It has to be something that you can rest your eyes upon, it doesn´t have to be furniture. Innovative and exciting, with both form and functionality - timeless!
Name a famous person you think should fit in a Modart chair. Tina Turner would fit nicely in a Spirit chair. Perhaps with a specially made footrest.
What is your favorite piece of furniture from Modart? It´s great that Modart has embraced an eyebrow raiser like pazzo!
T-Gul Industrial Design Even if T-Gul designed furniture before, this is our first cooperative design job. So far, our work with Modart has really whetted our appetite and we hope to develop it further in the future. T-Gul Industrial Design has its roots firmly set in Swedish design tradition. We know how to find the artistic expression for strong impressions.
What´s the inspiration behind your furniture? Our inspiration comes from everywhere. As designers we work in several businesses and our different projects contribute to each other. The inspiration to pazzo came from Bauhaus, even if it isn´t a Bauhaus chair in itself, but also from the dentist´s chair in Little Shop of Horrors and from futuristic movies like Terry Gilliam´s Brazil.
What is good design to you? Good design is a strategic resource which generates experiences that allows people and organizations to develop. It is a fine balance between innovation, functionality and esthetics which together makes good ideas visible and accessible.
Name a famous person you think should fit in a Modart chair. Pierluigi Collina, the Italian former football referee, who widely regarded as one of the world´s best officials. Also known as Capo di tutti capi (boss of all bosses.) He would fit perfectly in Capo di Capi! måns h sjöstedt
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martin sallander
520
590
470
590
Ultra glide. chair/ armchair
460
Moulded cold foam with spring system around a metal construction. Upholstered in fabric or leather. Five-star swivel base with wheels or glides, 360 degree swivel. Available with memory return swivel and swing or pneumatic height adjustment.
460
550
590
470
590
Ultra. chair/ armchair 460
Moulded cold foam with spring system around a metal construction. Upholstered in fabric or leather. Steel legs in chrome finish, or silver lacquered. Metal armrests with leather.
460
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Electra. easy chair/ sofa
Wooden frame, flexible seat in bearing weave with cold foam. Upholstered in fabric or leather. Metal legs and armrests with leather in chrome finish or silver lacquered. Available as easy chair, 2-seat or 3-seat sofa.
Pazzo. chair
910
With a frame of steel and seat elements of PUR-rubber Four-star swivel base in chrome finish. Available in chrome finish and with seat details in red or black.
460 540
510
450
Capo di Capi. armchair
857
Wooden frame, seat and back in cold foam. Upholstered in fabric or leather. Four-star swivel base in chrome finish.
460
595
582
Fatboy. chair/ armchair
Wooden frame seat in cold foam. Upholstered in fabric or leather, back in laminated veneer. Available in birch, beech, oak, walnut or lacquered in optional color Metal legs/ armrests in chrome finish or silver lacquered.
Slim. chair/ armchair Laminated veneer. Available in birch, beech, oak, walnut or lacquered in optional color. Steel legs in chrome finish, black or silver lacquered. Choose between plain seat, upholstery seat, upholstered seat and back, or for maximum comfort: the F1 where the seat and back is dressed up with 30 mm cold foam. Choose between armrests in steel, leather or matching wood.
875
875 670
460
460
545
540
540
390
Spirit. chair/ armchair Laminated veneer seat with swing. 4-star steel legs in chrome finish, or silver lacquered. Chose between glides or wheels. Upholstered in fabric or leather.
540
460
390
860
390
860
460
860
460 550
500
545
460 550
500
500
580
Spirit. bar stool Laminated veneer seat. Available in birch or lacquered in optional color. Steel legs in chrome finish, or silver lacquered. Choose between plain seat, upholstery seat or upholstered seat and back. Avalible in two heights.
780
640 284
196
445
445
Spirit. easy chair Moulded cold foam around a tube metal construction. Upholstered in fabric or leather. Four-star Chrome finish swivel base with glides. Available with metal arm pads in leather.
990
800
390
390
700
600
665
730
1800
Spirit. beamseating Frame: powder coated steel beam with chrome finish, 16 mm steel wire legs. Two- or three-section seating units with possibilities to connect straight or in a 90 degrees angle. Table top in veneer or laminate. Laminated veneer seats. Available in birch, beech, oak, walnut or lacquered in optional color. Choose between plain seat, upholstery seat, upholstered seat and back, or four maximum comfort: the F1 where the hole seat is dressed up with 30 mm of cold foam. Also available with armrests.
730
700
920 450
2100 1200
665
540
460
&ÚR SKIVA
För skiva : 1200x800 - 2400x1100
700
550
För skiva : 1200x800 - 2400x1100
Kajak. fliptop Kajak fliptop mobile table with foldable tabletop. The tables can be rolled aside and stored compactly together. The tipping function is simple and stable, and can be performed without strain, in just a few seconds. The tabletops are available in many shapes and combinations. For more information about Kajak systems, look in the pricelist. Steel base in chrome finish, or silver lacquered.
700
700
740
740
Cirkle. table 22 mm MDF tabletops in many dimensions and materials. Disc base and leg in chrome finish or powder coated in silver and black. Two disc base sizes: 490 mm diameter, 6 mm thick massive steel, or 600 mm diameter, 10 mm thick massive steel. Height: 700 mm or 1100 mm.
1100 700
700
450
720
Spirit. table 1200 x 1200 1400, 1800 x 900
2400 x 900 2400, 3000, 3400 x 1100
Choose between coffee table and conference table. Sizes from 900 x 900 up to 1100 x 3400. 22 mm MDF tabletop in black/ white laminate or veneer. Steel base in chrome finish, or silver lacquered.
900
900
Electra. coffee table 38 mm MDF table top in black/ white laminate or veneer. Steel base in chrome finish, or silver lacquered.
450 740
2400
Gemello. table 740
1200
2400
Conferenstable with storage. Reach the storage by pulling the tabletops apart. 22 mm MDF tabletop in white or black laminate, steel base in chrome finish.
1200
700
720
Domino. table 22 mm MDF tabletop in black/ white laminate or veneer. Steel base in chrome finish, or silver lacquered.
Capo di capi
4-5
Gemello
6-7
Kajak flip top
12 - 13
Cirkle
14 - 15
Electra
16 - 21
Ultra
24 - 27
Fatboy
28 - 29
Slim
30 - 33
Spirit
34 - 41
Domino
42 - 43
Pazzo
44 - 45
Today, we settle all of our business.
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Modart Design Seriously. Why are offices so dull? Why can´t you have an office designed with a bit of sting? Something that gives life to those every-day routines. Not so pretentious. And not so bloody boring. Furniture needs both attitude and comfort. Important decisions call for comfortable furniture. Fashion constantly changes, but our furniture is always up-to-date. We design them in a classical, clean style, but with a great portion of personality. Furniture for business kings and street lords alike. And if you ever should find yourself at the wrong end of a gun, you would want to be seated in a proper chair.
Myntgatan 2 550 03 Jönköping tel. +46 3630 2580 • fax. +46 3630 2583 • info@modartdesign.com • www.modartdesign.com