Designed by Sam Hecht and Kim Colin of Industrial Facility, Sling Lounge Chair combines a bold new vision of what a chair can look like with the eco-design principles that underpin TAKT as a certified B-Corp. 

When TAKT founder, Henrik Taudorf Lorensen, commissioned Hecht and Colin, the pair saw an opportunity to create a genuinely new type of chair, an altogether different – but comfortably recognisable – typology, suited to the reality of modern living.

Comprising a natural linen fabric seat slung, hammock-like, between two solid oak side components, Sling represents both a brave new formal direction. With its elemental form, angled seating position and slung fabric seat, Sling could be likened to Marcel Breuer’s Wassily Chair, and yet utterly distinctive, and lighter.

“The Sling Lounge Chair is balanced between something we know and something we haven' t seen yet,” says Nicolai de Gier, TAKT design director and associate professor at the Royal Danish Academy. “It adds new dimensions to the lounge chair as a typology, which makes it quite unique, but it also incorporates crafted details and materials that make it familiar. Although it is minimal in the sense that every shape and part of the chair has a functional reason for being, it still comes across with its very own personality.”

Industrial Facility' s starting point was to consider the ways in which our lifestyles have changed over the decades – the shift from the slim and suited world of the 1950s to the more rounded, casual character of today. They envisioned a chair that was adopted to‘lighter living’: youthful, lower-slung than a standard chair, lightweight and easy to move around, both within the room and when moving home.

Comfort was a priority. It had to be a chair which one could sink into to read a book or settle in for a conversation – somewhere to utterly relax, while remaining engaged.