• Ekstrem Chair by Terje Ekstrøm for Varier in black, three-quarter view
  • Ekstrem Chair by Terje Ekstrøm for Varier in black knit, front view
  • Ekstrem Chair by Terje Ekstrøm for Varier in black, three-quarter view
  • Ekstrem Chair by Terje Ekstrøm for Varier in black knit, front view

Ekstrem Chair by Terje Ekstrøm – Black

The Ekstrem Chair, designed by Terje Ekstrøm in 1984 and produced by Varier in Norway. Considered one of Norway's first postmodern designs, the Ekstrem reads as much like a sculpture as a lounge chair: an open, fully upholstered steel frame that lets you sit forward, sideways, or turned around with your arms over the back.

Upholstered in black knit.

  • Materials: tubular steel frame, polyurethane foam, knit upholstery
  • Made in: Norway

Lead time: Black ships within about 3 business days within the continental U.S.

Also available by special order in Blossom, Pool, Scarlet, Port, Olive, Umber and Sand (lead time up to 10 weeks). Email hello@biritestudio.com to order a special color.

Height, 31.1"
Width, 28.3"
Depth, 27.6"
Seat Height, 16.9"

Uses: Living rooms, reading corners, home offices, lounges.

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Terje Ekstrøm (1944–2013) was a Norwegian interior architect and industrial and furniture designer. Although he could have continued his family's cabinetmaking business, he chose to work independently as a designer. He trained at the National College of Arts and Crafts (SHKS) in Oslo, where his 1968 student project, a modular hexagonal house, first drew attention, and he went on to design for Tandbergs Radiofabrikk, whose Fasett speaker (1975) brought him international recognition. Ekstrøm completed the prototype of the Ekstrem chair in 1972, then spent twelve years searching for a manufacturer willing to make it, until Hjellegjerde put it into production in 1984; Stokke and now Varier have produced it since. The idea came from being told as a child not to tilt his chair, so he designed one that invites you to sit forward, sideways or backwards. Though the Ekstrem is often called Norway's first postmodern design, Ekstrøm considered it a modernist piece in which function always came first. It is held in the collection of Norway's Nasjonalmuseet, which honored him with the exhibition Ekstrem Ekstrøm in 2016.