Pierre Chapo - S12 Stretched Leather Stool
by Chapo Création
Material
Stretched Leather
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The S12 is a stretched leather stool by Pierre Chapo, part of the Pierre Chapo collection produced by Chapo Création.
The piece is square and compact, with medium-brown solid oak legs supporting a leather-covered top. Saddle-stitched leather straps cross the structure at the corners, securing the surface while making the assembly mechanism visible. The corner joinery is exposed throughout, consistent with Chapo's approach across all his wood pieces. The form works as a stool, side table, or footrest depending on context.
Leather and wood in the S12 serve each other: the leather softens the density of the oak block, the oak stabilizes the stretch of the leather. Chapo applied this stretched-leather technique to several pieces in his body of work, and the S12 is among the most compact expressions of it. The stool is produced at the Gordes atelier by Chapo Création in solid oak with natural tan leather.
W 43 x D 43 x H 43 cm
W 16.93 x D 16.93 x H 16.93 in
Materials: Solid Wood. The following types of woods are available : Elm, Oak, Ash, Beech or Cypress.
About
Chapo Création
Pierre Chapo trained as an architect at the Beaux-Arts de Paris before turning to furniture after the Second World War. Le Corbusier, the Bauhaus masters, and Frank Lloyd Wright shaped his thinking. After returning from North America with his partner Nicole Lormier, they opened the Galerie Chapo in Paris's 5th arrondissement in 1958, showing his work alongside Scandinavian and modern design.
In a workshop in Clamart, Chapo developed his first production pieces: the T01 table, the S01 stool, and the L01 (the Godot bed, commissioned by Samuel Beckett). Each was assembled in solid elm or oak using patented joinery systems, without nails or glue. The City of Paris awarded him its Gold Medal in 1960; the Société des artistes décorateurs followed with a Bronze Medal in 1967.
After Chapo's death in 1987, his son Fidel ran the atelier until 2021. Today Chapo Création is directed by his grandson Zoran Chapo, who continues production at the studio in Gordes, Vaucluse, using oak and elm from certified forests finished with linseed oil and turpentine. More than 100 original designs remain in the catalog. In 2024 the studio collaborated with Yves Salomon on a collection shown at Maison&Objet in Paris.
The Chapo Création collection is available on Monde Singulier.
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