Courbes Alléchantes - Chair

Name: Courbes Alléchantes - Chair
Brand: Axel Chay
Price: 5010 EUR
Availability: InStock

by Axel Chay

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Material

Chamois

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One continuous tube, bent into a loop and wrapped entirely in chamois faux fur, becomes both seat and backrest. The Courbes Alléchantes chair achieves its form through a single gesture: an aluminium pipe that rises from the floor, curves into a U-shaped seat, and bends up into a backrest in one unbroken arc. The U-shaped base mirrors this logic, keeping the silhouette clean and monochromatic.

Wrapped in light brown faux fur throughout, the chair presents as sculpture first and seating second, yet functions as both without compromise. The faux-fur covering softens every edge, replacing the hard profile of a tubular chair with something warmer and more ambiguous. There are no exposed joints, no visible hardware.

Axel Chay's Marseille studio produces the piece by hand, the wrapping technique requiring the same level of craft as the welding that shapes the frame. Part of the Courbes Alléchantes collection, where material transformation is the design.

W 40 x D 40 x H 90 cm

W 15.75 x D 15.75 x H 35.43 in

Materials: Pink Synthetic Fur / Aluminium

About
Axel Chay

Axel Chay is a self-taught designer based in Marseille, working across sculptural furniture, lighting, and art objects. He co-founded Nova Obiecta in 2013 before launching his own studio in 2020, now run as a family enterprise: Axel designs, his wife Melissa handles communication and brand identity, and his brother Aimeric produces the pieces in their Marseille atelier.

His work draws from the Mediterranean coastline where he grew up, from the kinetic artists he admires (Donald Judd, Tom Wesselmann, Julio Le Parc, Geneviève Claisse), and from the Memphis movement's rejection of neutral design. He resists any fixed identity: "I try to draw things that I like and that are not trivial." The result is sculptural furniture and lighting that is colorful, graphic, and built to hold its presence in a room.

Materials are chosen empirically. Steel and aluminum form the backbone of most pieces, welded and ground by hand in the Marseille atelier. Cork, wood, expanded foam, plaster, onyx, and selenite appear where the design calls for a different weight or texture. No piece is standardized; the production process is deliberately non-industrializable.

The studio's bestsellers (the "Modulation" lamp, the "Coquillage" wall lights, and the "Septem" stool) have earned international distribution and brought Chay into collaboration with Monoprix (Folies collection, 2024), Pradier-Jeauneau (Calade, presented at PAD Paris 2024), and Galerie Liberté in Luxembourg (Précieuse, 2025). Each project extends the same logic: objects that break from decorative convention and function as Mediterranean design sculpture.

On Monde Singulier, Axel Chay's furniture and lighting from the Marseille atelier occupy a distinct position in the catalog: sculptural, colored, emphatically non-neutral.

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