Is beauty just a question of looks, or could there be more to it than meets the eye? Inspired by Naoto Fukasawa and Jasper Morrison’s book Super Normal, Koppmann designed a chair which flirts with the idea of an archetype to draw attention to a more important issue: supporting a sustainable forest system.

Today, combining different types of wood in one piece of furniture is still unusual and often a matter of taste. But the forest can’t be healthy and climate resistant in the long run if we have the tendency to simply cherry-pick material from it.

With its classical form, The (un)ordinary chair makes the wood combination both visually and physically appealing for our living spaces, while contributing to a sustainable use of the forest.