Ebur Editions - Kola Armchair
by Studio Ebur
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The Kola armchair is a low lounge chair from Studio Ebur's Ebur Editions collection, its wooden frame shaped as a continuous curvilinear structure that integrates the seat, backrest, and sides into a single form.
The frame extends from the floor legs upward into flared side supports, enclosing the seat area without back posts or separate armrests. Beige woven textile fills the seat and backrest, set slightly recessed within the wood. The textile's weave is coarse enough to add texture against the smooth wood surface, while the neutral color keeps the composition calm.
Studio Ebur produces the Kola in oak, worked in workshops selected for quality joinery and curved woodwork. The continuous frame requires precise bending and lamination to maintain smooth transitions at each curve, particularly at the junction between the side supports and the seat base.
The name references the kola nut, present in West African cultures, a biographical grounding for Racha Gutierrez and Dahlia Hojeij Deleuze, who grew up in Ivory Coast. That specificity gives pieces within Ebur Editions their referential character beyond form alone.
W 64 x D 98 x H 90 cm
W 25.2 x D 38.58 x H 35.43 in
Materials: Solid Oak, Woven Fabric.
About
Studio Ebur
Studio Ebur is a Paris design studio founded in 2020 by Racha Gutierrez and Dahlia Hojeij Deleuze. The name carries its own etymology: Ebur is Latin for ivory, a reference to the Ivory Coast where both founders grew up before studying architecture together in Paris.
Their practice covers furniture, lighting, objects, and spatial design. The aesthetic builds on West African craft, Mediterranean light and form, and the French and Italian decorative arts of the early twentieth century. References span Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann, Jean Dunand, Carlo Bugatti, and the Wiener Werkstätte. The studio describes this layering as a palimpsest, cultures accumulated across time that give each piece depth without fixing it to a single origin.
Production is distributed across workshops in France, Portugal, Italy, and Lebanon, each chosen for a specific technique: forged iron, stoneware, raw silk, or the Lebanese marquetry tradition that the studio weaves into contemporary furniture forms.
The debut furniture collection, Le bruit de la mer (2023), drew its title from a shared childhood memory: the sound of the sea on weekends in Ivory Coast and along the Mediterranean. The collection set the studio's formal vocabulary: curved silhouettes, textured surfaces, a tension between raw and refined that carries through their work. Signature pieces such as the Visconti armchair and the Dante mirror translate that vocabulary into domestic scale. Studio Ebur holds AD 100 recognition.
Their furniture and objects are available on Monde Singulier.
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