ACTULUM™ SUPERCLASS JAW

The rocking chair in sustainable and nostalgic fish skin

Chair design by Peter Opsvik, 1995

Re-dressed by Ingrid Bredholt, 2020

Chair Measurement:
W 55 cm x D 66 cm x H 90 cm, Seat height 46 cm

Approx Weight:
11 kg

The floor runner and armrest are made from one single piece of pressed plywood, creating a distinct visual profile while ensuring smooth movements. This Actulum™ has a wood frame painted twice with transparent lacquer. The seat and back cushions are dressed in a pale grey salmon leather, resembling snake but with total opposite values. A widespread and available material with a very sustainable context because of its “left over” status. Yet this leather is stronger than most and delightfully kitsch.

Salmon leather - 100% fish skin from the Atlantic Sea. + Wood

Peter Opsvik

Peter Opsvik is a Norwegian industrial designer born in 1939, trained at the Bergen College of Applied Art and the Norwegian State College of Applied Art in Oslo. Opsvik has worked as a freelance industrial designer since 1970, and currently has his own design studio in Oslo, where he works with seven colleagues focusing on product design as a mean for solving real-life problems. Throughout his career, Opsvik has attempted to overcome our stereotypical sitting habits with his unconventional seating solutions. With a playful and human starting point, his work is a display of how norms of sitting nicely and sitting still can be broken.