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The Design Process Behind HAYCHE’s

WW Chair

06.11.19 | By Caroline Williamson


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London-based HAYCHE released the WW Chair a few years ago and we

thought it was time to revisit the modern Windsor design to see how it
was made. Designed by Alejandro Villarreal, the chair features a solid wood
seat resting atop four tapered legs, with a series of wire spindles that rise
from the underside to join the wooden bar backrest. The WW Chair, where
the first ‘W’ stands for Windsor and the second for Wire, originally came in
just oak and walnut, but was later released in a variety of bold colorways.
For this month’s Deconstruction, HAYCHE and Villarreal, take us inside to
see how the design came about.

Villarreal’s working process starts manually: “My design process always

starts with a hand-drawn sketch, which I find intimate and very personal,”
he says.
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“After that, I share the sketch with my design team and we start the
painstaking process of 3D modeling.” The design for the WW Chair took six
months and three prototypes to get right. “It was a very intuitive, iterative
process,” says Villarreal.

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are made from solid European oak or
American walnut. The seat is partly CNC (computer numerically controlled)
cut and partly hand carved, while the legs are milled using traditional
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“Oak is my favourite wood and walnut brings a nice contrast and can be
very beautiful as well,” says Villarreal. “It also happens that both materials
are quite commercial.”
The distinctive back is made from 17 lengths of 5mm powder-coated metal
wire welded to a solid plate that is attached to the underside of the seat.
They are bent into shape and held in place by a second metal plate
embedded in the solid wood backrest. A low-level horizontal wire keeps
them evenly spaced. “Wire was the natural material to choose for the
back,” explains the designer. “It enabled us to achieve the desired thickness
and structural strength.”
The use of wire also creates flexibility in a back that gently moves in
response to the sitter’s weight, making the chair more dynamic and
ergonomic than its predecessor.

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our logo is carved into every single furniture piece we produce. before
assembly.
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On the contrast of wood and wire, Villarreal says: “I always want to respect
the beauty of materials and I like bringing them together in a way that
makes each one bigger or better than it was on its own.”
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The WW Chair is available in solid oak, walnut, and both fabric & leather
upholstery.
The WW Collection includes the WW Colour Series in collaboration

with Studio Makgill, and the newly launched WW Armchair, which is also
available in the colour series.
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WW Armchair Colour Series launched this year and its design is based on
the same principle as the WW Dining Chair.