Grace High from freifrau

Strong and straight Grace stands, with a real classy touch and a name to match: Grace Jones, Grace Kelly… Two eponymous women who stood their ground yet never hid their tender side.

In designing Grace, Birgit Hoffmann and Christoph Kahleyss got their inspiration from the soft elegance of leather draped loosely over a chair. Early on, it became clear that the particular charm of the new piece would require especially thick leather as a contrast to a delicate frame, and this represented a not inconsiderable challenge for the design duo.

Leather is, after all, a natural material, and designers need to harness its characteristics in order to turn their ideas into reality. With its finely-positioned open stitches, the leather used is at once robust and elegant, full of archaic heft yet with an undeniable grace.

Hence the name of the chair, which presents leather in its purest form and offers unparalleled comfort: Grace. This chair is the result of more than 400 hours of work, distilled into a finished piece which really earns its name.

Leather features

Making good things better is only possible, as in architecture, if you leave out everything unnecessary: with MAGNUM, we do without any kind of finishing, embossing or other alteration of the natural structure and impression. MAGNUM - the most beautiful thing that nature gives us: incomparably supple, rich to the touch, very cuddly and warm and despite its high thickness: enormously soft!

Made from the most distinctive part of the hide: only the neck area of hand-picked heavy Central European bull hides is used. Only this "neck leather" - coarsely milled and interwoven with pronounced mast folds - gives us this expression of character.

Processing

Grace stands for design that has been thought through to the end. Even the underside is perfectly conceived. Everything has been developed so that appearance and function work together. This model can also be seen from the underside. The bottom upholstery is traditionally held in place by clips. These clips are often a nuisance in the viewing area. Grace is made in such a way that these clips are not noticeable. Puristic and perfectly finished.

The base looks elegant, noble and stable. In order to maintain the high quality standard visually, the steel frame was constructed in such a way that the weld seams are invisible in the visible area thanks to a highly technical welding process.