About the Chandigarh Design Chair
Quality of the design chair
The quality of a Pierre Jeanneret design chair can be assessed by 4 different elements: The type of wood, the type of rattan, the resemblance to the original Chandigarh design as by the vision of Pierre Jeanneret and the overall quality of the craftsmanship.
Unique chair made of wood and rattan
Since we make our chairs by hand and only use natural materials each of our chairs is unique. This can be seen in the difference in wood grain or in the way the rattan or webbing is applied on the seat by hand. We also number each chair with a unique deep wood laser engraving to make sure we can track each chair from plantation to our warehouse
The wood and rattan of our Chandigarh chair
There are many different types of rattan and teak wood and even more different levels of quality. For our Chandigarh chairs we only use carefully grown A-grade teak. This teak wood comes from the center of the tree and is the oldest with very few wood-knots. The rattan or webbing of our Chandigarh chairs comes from the best natural cane plants and is cut by hand into strings.
Buying a design chair online
Buying a chair online can be challenging. At Object Embassy we acknowledge this and therefore we provide free returns on all of our Pierre Jeanneret chairs. So you can try them at home. If, after buying the chair online, you somehow are not happy, you can return it to us free of charge. No questions asked.
Original, reedition or replica Pierre Jeanneret / Chandigarh chair?
The only original chairs are made in the 1950’s. Every chair produced today is a replica or reedition. Even the chairs produced by world famous brands are re-editions or replicas and often referred to as an Homage to Pierre Jeanneret.
Chandigarh, Capitol Complex or Pierre Jeanneret design chair
The design chairs are named differently with different manufacturers. Most commonly used is Pierre Jeanneret design chairs or Chandigarh style chairs. However Capitol Complex chairs are also used. Whether named Pierre Jeanneret, Capitol Complex, Chandigarh-style, all refer to the same design vision.