To celebrate 10 years of Embrace - we recently made a short film documenting the production process... Weโ€™re currently condensing 2 days of footage ๐Ÿคฏ
OTIS @loadingbay ๐Ÿ“ท @matannakatz
OTIS Chairs at the @vamuseum in the new museum living room designed by @aberrantarchitecture Otis chairs - Oak - upholstered in @romo_fabrics. ๐Ÿ‘Œ
OTIS stools & chairs @loadingbay Captured perfectly by @timara_w ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿผ
OTIS stool - 2016 Steel footrest effortlessly intertwining with the oak legs. โ €โ €โ €โ €โ €โ €โ €โ €โ € If only it was so effortless to prototype ๐Ÿคฏ Keeping things simple isnโ€™t always simple...those who know, know! โ €โ €โ €โ €โ €โ €โ €โ €โ € ๐Ÿ“ธ @perfectaperture
One of my favourite things about Instagram is stumbling across pictures of my products in situ taken by the general public. These OTIS Bar Stools & Chairs were made for @loadingbay a super nice clothing store and eatery in Cape Town. South Africa. ๐Ÿ“ธ@petitepassport
EMBRACE - designed in 2007 as a response to a university brief. The brief was to design a modern take on the Isokon Penguin Donkey, that was within 10% of the originals dimensions. The outcome was Embrace, Two bent plywood components that when โ€œembracedโ€ together form a small coffee table with plenty of casual storage and two magazine racks. When the tables are pulled apart they can be used for anything you like; a table and bench for kids, a serving tray for breakfast in bed etc... After various prototypes in the university workshops the first 50 pcs were made by myself, cold pressed in a tiny garage in the centre of York. The next 200 were made in a bent ply factory in the UK, before I moved production to a larger better equipped bent ply factory in the Baltics, where the raw materials used are sustainably felled in the nearby forests. Embrace is available in Birch, Oak and Walnut
This year marks 10 years since โ€œEmbraceโ€ went into production and the first unit was sold. I designed embrace back in 2006 when I was a student and after graduation I set about putting it into production. Realising my first product was a steep learning curve for sure, but more than worth it in the end. To date weโ€™ve sold 2172 embraces each one signed and stamped by myself. Those numbers probably donโ€™t sound like much of a big deal to some people, but Iโ€™m super proud and thankful for every single one ๐Ÿ™Œ
Otis chair + Otis chair 4 Stack. Creating a clean stack without compromising on aesthetic was more of a challenge than I ever thought.....but worth the perseverance
OTIS Chair detail. I still enjoy finding new angles to see my handy work.
Todayโ€™s mission - Otis Chair manufacture in-house #madeintheuk #brexit ๐Ÿ“ธ @perfectaperture
Thanks @d_watso for this shot of Embrace. Itโ€™s a pleasure to see it getting daily use ๐Ÿ โ˜•๏ธ ๐Ÿ“š
@earlycedofeita Is a new coffee shop / eatery & bar in Porto, Portugal. Im really happy they chose Otis chairs to sit along side some classics in this old mahogany clad bookstore. ๐Ÿ™Œ @woodwireshop for your work.
I love it when customers take their time to send in pictures ๐Ÿ™ upholstered Otis Bench & Otis Chairs sitting pretty around a @galvin_brothers table in this customers house in the Scottish highlands
#Repost @woodwireshop with @get_repost ใƒปใƒปใƒป Did you know at Wood & Wire we also sell chairs? Our first exports are gracefully featured here at @earlycedofeita, a delectable new artisan coffee shop in Porto, recently repurposed by @emanueldesousa from an old bookshop. We think the @johngreendesigns Otis and the @omk1965 Omkstak chairs work beautifully here and we're swooning at the Mahogany backdrop too. What about you? #mahogany #coffeeshoplove
Embrace basking in the Berlin sunshine ๐Ÿ“ธ courtesy of @monoqi
OTIS bench - coming soon.
๐Ÿ‘€ Otis Black on Black. Another shot from the @hamjoanna kitchen. Iโ€™m enjoying the valchromat kitchen by @russellalexanderkitchens ๐Ÿ‘Œ
Black Otis chairs with Black Leather seat pads looking great in the HAM residence ๐Ÿ™Œ thanks @hamjoanna for the ๐Ÿ“ธ and for choosing Otis.
Our stand at @effectsdesignmarket