KORT
A chair that changes your life
Life Style
Today, the boundaries that between living and working are becoming increasingly blurred. A typical scenario in less formal blurredackdrops where it is all for having a casual chat, trust-building, creativity or inspiration. In this case, design solutions are called for that offer a more personal touch in the working environment and greater professional flair at home. In other words, furniture that has been developed for work and life from the very start.
Work Style
This is a Milestone In both conceptual and technical terms,as well as in the flexibility of its design which allows totally different interpretations. For the first time in furniture history, a sheet steel chair frame has been crafted with cuttingedge technologies from auto engineering. An organic shape has been fashioned that fuses with the seat shell to become a distinctive whole. KORT is a multi-purpose chair that has won many awards. Depending on the version chosen it cuts an impressive dash in working and living environments: in studios,meeting rooms, or workshops and showrooms or dining rooms or cafeterias, hotels or conference areas and offices.
Take a seat and travel to the world of KORT.
Automotive
Process
Design
Chair
Breaking the Boundry Designer’s idea was the sparkling beginning of the story. The aimed objective was to create a new masterpiece: like a stylish leather bicycle saddle, or the gear of skateboard. The chair was to merge stability and technical precision with a contoured shape. Something for people to sit on that never losesits fascination. A chair that lightweight, easy to get hold of and comfortable, ergonomic. These visions led unprecedented manufacturing technology taken from auto engineer.
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With persuasiveness and tenacity the idea gradually began to take shape. The first prototype were welded together from 11 handmade components. The form was complex and the radii were small. One of the toughest challenges was also to achieve maximum strength with a minimum of steel. Luckily, we met chassis this time. A chassis consists of an internal frame work that supports a man-made object in its construction and use. It is analogous to an animal’s skeleton. When KORT came onto the market 2011 it was the first chair to be produced from deepdrawn sheet steel, like the bodywork of a car.
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Stefan Diez
Our job is not to fulfill the market.
Its form results from a special industrial process involving considerable investments for the development and construction of press dies to make the steel light and stable as well.
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1. Chair Back 2. Chassis Frame 3. SeatSupporting Rail 4. Front Stretcher 5. Back Stretcher 6. Front Lumber 7. Back Lumber 8. Stile Connector 9. Cresting Rail
In the production process, an industrial press forms and stretches the pre-cut fine-steel metal at 300 tonnes of pressure to make the seat and backrest frame. Further, factors including the geometry, pressure in the press, speed and damping are attuned so that no tears occur to the pre-stamped components during the deepdrawing process. Four laser-cut piece of metal are incorporated to provide the parts for connecting points. Stability is created by the formed structure and not the amount of material used—avenge raw materials and its weight.
Production Process
Serial Manufacture
Cropping the disposed croppings of metal are used to produce the four connecting points, so that virtually no wastage is created.
Compressing industrial press forms and stretches the pre-cut fine steel metal at 300 tons of pressure to make the body frame.
Galvanization a galvanization process is usually adding a thin layer of zinc onto the sheet steel to protect it from corrosion.
Drying the frame is drying in the air and waiting for post-production throughout leather padding by masterfully handcraft.
A robot then welds the frame, connecting points and legs together before powder coating them. The exchangeable seat and backrest shell, made of finely grained polypropylene, is industrial design at its best. It is form-fitted to the frame using a patented, concealed connecting method.
Working as the producer, KORT had the oppor tunity to make a chair by industrial means for the first time.
One Characteristic Many Faces
The black, white and grey models with colourmatched, throughdyed, easy-care, top-quality polypropylene shell unadulterated industrial design. But KORT has even more to offer. With textile-covered shells and additional frame colours it becomes a personalised expression of lifestyles—and a versatile tool that integrates with different interior design concepts. Options ranging from casual, classic to modern are available. There are 29 different combinations to choose from— with three different cover fabrics in five different tones in each case. The exceptional interaction of frame and shell gives the chair many different faces which represent the distinctive features and character of KORT.
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Weight: 5.4kg / 5.8kg with textile cover Colors: 5 frame types, 3 shell colors, 15 textile covers Materials: Extremely strong sheet metal, plastic shell with textile covers Standard: Issue of teh GS symbol is currently being looked into
Various Combinations Maybe you’re looking for a different style in conference areas or hotel rooms? Or perhaps you want to create really special interior and showroom concepts? Or maybe combine multiple colour and textural solutions at the conference or dining table? KORT got all your need. The fabric and colour combinations were developed with fashion designer Farah Ebrahimi and carefully co-ordinated with the frame colours. As a result, every permutation presents an appealing, personalised aesthetic.
Frame & Plastic Shell Choices
Grey White
Cement Green
Mustard Yellow
Brown Green
Graphite Black
Flame Red
Fabric Cover Colors Choices
Red
Beige Grey
Black
Beige-Red
Grey
Black Grey
Ruby-Red
Sand
Grey-Black
Olive-Black
Anthracite
Grey-Black
Ideal
Bright
Balanced Cozy
Friendly
Sleek
Stylish
One for All
All from One
Technical Specializations
Four-legged, lightweight, multi-purpose chair for conference rooms, informal meeting areas, cafeterias, showrooms, lobbies, dining rooms or hotels. It consists of two materials that are easy to recycle. The frame is made of highperformance steel metal, in browngreen, grey and white, graphite black, or flame red, is coated with powder. The shell is either colour matched with the frame and made of through-dyed polypropylene graphite black, cement grey, greywhite or textile polypropylene for you to choose. The plastic glides are suitable for both hard and soft floorings. KORT versions with polypropylene shells with no covers can be stacked up to four inches high.
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