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Another benefit of pine is that, although the chair has a chunky, heavyweight appearance, it is
relatively light. This is particularly beneficial given that – in order to accommodate the fact that
people have generally grown taller since the chair's original launch – the seat height has been raised.
As a wood, pine has an engaging visual texture, thanks to the interplay of light and dark veins
running through it and the knots scattered across the surface, giving each Daumiller Armchair a
personality of its own. Contoured for comfort when sitting and built for durability, the Daumiller
Armchair is a confident expression of materiality, issuing an invitation to fall in love with pine every
bit as deeply as its creator did.
Whether working in synthetic materials or in his beloved pine, Rainer Daumiller always demonstrated
an acute understanding of his medium. His ability to ‘listen to materials’ mean that his designs were
always inspired by the inherent characteristics of what they were made from. His most celebrated
works, including the Daumiller Armchair, were in natural materials, and could almost be described as
collaborations with nature, rather than the singular visions of an individual designer.
