Sizar Alexis Collection - ItooRaba Dining Chair
by Sizar Alexis
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The ItooRaba Dining Chair is part of the Sizar Alexis Collection, a series of pieces rooted in geometric severity and the cultural memory of ancient Mesopotamia. Dark-stained pine forms thick rectangular planks arranged into a low backrest, a flat seat, and three sturdy leg-supports. The proportions are intentional: heavy, block-like, resistant to trend. Where most dining chairs aim for lightness, this one leans into weight and permanence.
Sizar Alexis developed the ItooRaba series while exploring the monolithic qualities of Brutalist architecture through furniture scale. The name carries Chaldean resonance. Each piece is hand-assembled using components produced in a metalworking lineage that connects Eskilstuna's steel industry to what the designer calls the ancient Mesopotamian origins of metalworking.
The result is a dining chair that reads as sculpture before it reads as seating. It holds its ground in a room without demanding attention, a quality Sizar Alexis describes as "stillness with strong character." Available on Monde Singulier within the Sizar Alexis Collection, alongside the ItooRaba Lounge Chair and ItooRaba Side Table and Stool.
W 41 x D 47 x H 77 cm
W 16.14 x D 18.5 x H 30.31 in
Materials: Burned and stained black solid pine
About
Sizar Alexis
Sizar Alexis is a Swedish-Iraqi designer based in Eskilstuna, working at the intersection of Scandinavian brutalist design and ancient Mesopotamian heritage.
Before founding his studio in 2019, Alexis spent six years as a design engineer at Volvo, then studied fine arts at Beckmans College of Design. That formation, between industrial engineering and fine arts, shapes his practice throughout. He works with blackened steel, pine wood, and leather, materials both abundant in the Swedish landscape and tied to Eskilstuna's historic steel industry. Components for his pieces are produced in his father's metal tool factory, then hand-assembled in his own studio.
His work holds two forces in tension: the geometric weight of brutalist forms and the cultural memory of ancient Mesopotamia. "I want to convey a sense of chaos and harmony at the same time," he has said. As a descendant of the Chaldean diaspora with roots tracing to northern Iraq, Alexis channels that history into functional sculpture. Collections such as Lahmu and Ousia translate Mesopotamian symbolism into geometric furniture, pieces that read simultaneously as domestic objects and as cultural arguments. The Discovered exhibition at the Design Museum in London in 2021 brought his work to international attention; the Common/un/common duo show at Atelier Ecru Gallery in Ghent in 2022 confirmed its standing. He is an AD 100 designer.
On Monde Singulier, his pieces offer collectible design furniture that carries historical depth rarely found in Scandinavian production.
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