Kasper Salto
Normal, Active, Passive - The new stackable NAP™, designed by award-winning Danish designer Kasper Salto for furniture design manufacturer Republic of Fritz Hansen™, definitely has all the makings of a classic.Creativity since the cradle
Kasper Salto was born to a family of artists in 1967 in Copenhagen, Denmark. His mother Naja Salto was an artist, and his father Sven Poulsson an architect. Even his grandparents were artists. There were a few architects on his father’s side. Among them was his great-grandfather Magnus Poulsson, who worked together with architect Arnstein Arneberg to design the Oslo city hall.
Young Kasper Salto completed his training as a furniture maker in 1988. He then graduated from the Danish Design School. From 1994 to 1998, Salto worked for designer Rud Thygesen, a renowned Danish furniture designer. It was then that he met Peter Staerk. Both of these friendships had a huge influence on his career. In 1997 Salto designed the Runner chair for Peter Staerk, which made him famous both in Denmark and abroad.
In 1998 Kasper Salto opened his own studio in Christianshavn, where he also lives. In the year 2006, he moved the office to Sankt Peders Stræde 22 in the heart of Copenhagen.
Kasper Salto works primarily for the companies Fritz Hansen, DubaB8, Engelbrechts Furniture, Stærk design and Lightyears. He has received a number of design awards for his efforts, including the "Furniture Prize" in 2003 and more recently the "Finn Juhl prize" in 2010.
Sitting is movement
NAP, the new creation from Kasper Salto, is a stackable chair. Its curvaceous form is feminine and elegant. The contours of the nylon shell adapt naturally to the shape of the human body. When you take the textured waves into account, you feel like you can sit on this chair without problems – and actually enjoy doing so – for hours.
The NAP chair is a reflection of Kasper Salto‘s approach to design. "For me, design is about relevance," says the designer. "My goal is always to create a product that is relevant for the user. In designing the NAP chair, it was important to me that you can sit in it comfortably in as many positions as possible. Its name is an abbreviation of the three basic sitting positions: normal, active and passive – or in short: NAP. Because sitting is in fact a state of constant movement. "
The chair is available immediately in milk white and butter yellow.
Nicole Schemerl-Streben
