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KARNAK

Presented:	Salone del Mobile 2012, Milan
Stylepark-ID:	05.1593.10699
Categories:	Home furniture ›Seating furniture ›chairs

Product description

Designed in 1925, the elegant and archetypal chair KARNAK features Ferdinand Kramer's® masterful grip on simplicity. Available in waxed solid oak or European walnut, the linear profile of KARNAK is boldly reduced to the essentials, featuring a gently curved backrest and hand woven seat, providing considerable comfort. The woven seat is finished in a textile band or vegetable tanned leather, which is luxuriously soft and will patinate with exposure to direct light. With its spare and refined aesthetic the chair KARNAK is a signature piece suitable for diverse environments. Its frame is fitted with a steel profile for additional stability. KARNAK perfectly complements all tables in the e15 collection.

Specifications

Width	490 mm
Height	800 mm
Depth	525 mm
Seat finish	with upholstery
Base finish	with legs
Backrest finish	with backrest
Armrest finish	without armrests

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FAIRS & EVENTS

Preserve and display

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The architect’s bag

1/23/2018

Back in the day, Ferdinand Kramer designed a handbag for his wife Lore and produced it himself. Now the label Tsatsas, together with Lore Kramer, has issued a reedition of this modern piece.

DESIGN

Better than demolition

1/6/2016

It all comes back to Ferdinand Kramer. With the exhibition “Line Form Function”, Frankfurt’s Deutsches Architekturmuseum is presenting a show that is really worth seeing on Kramer’s architectural legacy. At the same time, the City of Frankfurt looks set to abandon this legacy and have the buildings torn down in the near future.

ARCHITECTURE

A systematic approach to living and loving

11/24/2015

Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt/Main is celebrating one of the city’s most famous architects – the exhibition “Line Form Function” shows the comprehensive oeuvre of Ferdinand Kramer.

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Walnut doesn’t need the peeling treatment

7/10/2015

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ARCHITECTURE

Campus Kramer

2/11/2014

An exhibition in the Frankfurt Museum Angewandte Kunst focusing on the furniture of designer Ferdinand Kramer. But his product designs remain tied to his architectural legacy, which is well worth taking a look at.

FAIRS & EVENTS

Knock-Down, not craftsmanship

2/8/2014

Frankfurt’s Museum of Applied Art presents Ferdinand Kramer – the designer, that is, not the architect. The show focuses on Kramer’s philosophy of creating adaptable, multi-purpose furniture.

MAGAZINE

Treasures in the archive

9/17/2012

Why develop a new product when you can simply reissue a design from the past? Contrary to one’s expectations, so-called “classics” are indeed required to prove their worth time and time again.

MAGAZINE

The new is not per se the good Checking out Milan, part 1

4/25/2012

The 51st Salone del Mobile and all its side shows remains one huge cultural event. By contrast, the exhibitors at the trade-fair halls in Rho prefer restraint and no longer try to parade their novelties at any price.

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Clearing out the comfy corner

4/16/2012

Architect Ferdinand Kramer not only made his name with modern, unadorned buildings and urban planning, but also, throughout his life, designed furniture whose formal vocabulary was clear and functional. At the Salone des Mobile in Milan e15 is showing a re-edition of Kramer's furniture, featuring eight of his designs.

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